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   I first heard about a far-off Asian country called Viet Nam when I was a junior in high school. One of my classmates’ dad was there as an American “advisor.” I didn’t know a thing about…

   I’m not aware that my parents had any plan in mind when it came to parenting. Our day to day lives just sort of happened. But there was the high expectation that my brother and I…

   Anne Lamott just advised me not to go on a diet on January 1st. I think she’s right– the people who go on diets lose a lot of weight in a hurry and then put it…

    Writers learn to be a thick-skinned group. At least on the surface, we’re able to read the rejection letters, grit our teeth and submit yet another draft because we know our writing can always be better….

   It was a dark and rainy day…really. But today I don’t want to talk about gloomy things. I won’t bring up gun control issues, the Presidential candidates, the evangelicals and their rhetoric, the crazy liberals who…