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I participated this weekend in the Women's March, like more than a million other people. I went with my mom, my daughter, and good friends, and I met other friends along the way. Marching was an incredible feeling, amplified by the growing understanding...

This weekend I became suddenly, intensely obsessed with throw pillows. We had our house painted last month, and it was a big event because we have never spent thousands of dollars on house improvements the way you are meant to if you are a house-owning...

This is going to start all black and bleak, and then the clouds are going to part a bit. It's going to start with a problem—okay, more than one—and then it's going to claw toward hope. So bear with me, if you will.
The shitstorm
There is a swirl, an ever-faster swirl, of things going wrong in the world. There is....

Confession: I am an abuser of exclamation marks and emoticons, both in personal communications and in my work—some of which involves social media in the book world. I have never ventured beyond :-) ;-) and :-(, because I have not taken the time to learn...