Sometime in the last fractious decade I read an article that caused a great kerfuffle about the average increase in the weight of the American woman over the last fifty or so years. Its clickbait title said something about the decline in hours that women spend doing housework, which was, I assume, what people were …Read More

    “Once more unto the breech, dear friends, once more.” –Shakespeare (HenryV) “I think you might have body dysmorphia.” –Darling Daughter “No one wants to hear the skinny girl complain about being fat.” –Darling Husband   It’s that time of year again. Back on October 29th or so, I heard a news byte that …Read More

There are so many reasons I love being a writer. One I could never have anticipated was how much I would treasure the time I get to spend with other people who love books: editors, agents, other writers, and readers. To me, writing was only about telling the story. The publishing part was secondary, and so …Read More

  Chocolate Won’t Get You Unstuck: This Writer’s Internal Dialogue About Food.   Me: You have this weird habit that I don’t understand. Me, too: Which one? I have a lot of weird habits. Me: You’ll be sitting there at your desk, concentrating on a paragraph or a page or on whatever it is that …Read More