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Things That Have Been Making Me Happy Lately, By Your Neighborhood Romance Novelist/Bookworm/Home Bartender.
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A Cretan Caper, A Breton Fantasy, and an Exhibition About Being a Body in the World (opens the original)
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I would normally be really excited about this time of year! The changing leaves and the back-to-school bounce! Crisp apples, sharp pencils, blank pages!You know, Nerd Christmas. But our twelfth wedding anniversary trip to Crete that was supposed to be all about quality time swimming and eating and making lovely memories instead became all about stomach flu. I will spare you the gruesome details, but it was about as bad as things can get without getting hooked up to an IV. Thankfully neither of u
Tricky Linguistics, Literary Treasure Hunts, and a Cocktail that Turns Pineapple Green (opens the original)
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Hello again friends, and happy autumn! I know, I know, the equinox hasn’t happened yet, but I have been romanticizing the heck out of this season after suffering through this truly cruel summer. (The fifth heat wave in August was really the cherry on top, if the cherry were made of horse manure and Red 40.) But I got to spend the last week of August in chilly, foggy Edinburgh, a blessed relief from desiccated London. As well as running around from show to show at the Fringe, looking at Gwen John
A High Summer Update (opens the original)
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Hello team! I hope you’re all doing well, staying as cool as you can (and avoiding any dubious lettuce if you’re in the US). I’ve been eating a lot of Italian tomatoes, melons, and peaches, lifting rocks and sandbags and wagon wheels for my meet in September, and slowly but steadily working on Book 3. I sent my first five chapters to my agent and my critique partner last week, and not to sound totally portentous, but it felt like it might be the end of the beginning. It’s definitely not easy fro
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