About eight years ago, I was rushing down a carpeted corridor in the Dayton Marriott hotel on my way to the ball room. A nervous first-time attendee of the wildly popular Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop, which happens every other year in Erma’s old Ohio hometown, I hurried toward the ballroom on my way to hear…
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Under the quarantine microscope: What I’ve learned about my husband of 27 years
Our family members are the people we know best. Living together makes us intimately familiar with each other’s personalities, likes, dislikes, quirks and habits. We know intuitively what the other person is thinking or feeling, without a single spoken word…
Tiptoeing around Class of COVID-19
“Mom! We’re out of avocados!” my 22-year-old daughter, Anna, bellowed. “And where are the goat cheese crumbles?!” People all over the globe are covering their faces and hands before entering grocery stores to buy life-sustaining food staples for their families sheltering at home, only to find them sparsely stocked. But in Anna’s world, being out…
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Chicken Soup editor gives glowing review of ‘My True Lit Com’
Back in 2017, I ate dinner with Amy Newmark, the Editor-in-Chief of the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise, which has over 250 book titles, along with other products, television shows, and podcasts. Obviously, Amy and I weren’t sharing a deep dish at Pizza Hut or a Bloomin’ Onion at Outback. We were at the…