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"I posted about this more in depth here, but basically the method that works best for me in these situations is: Recognize, Refrain, Relax, Resolve.
An excerpt from Pema Chodron's Getting Unstuck, where she explains this better than I..." [
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4 days ago
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"Yeah, you know, we just got ours last night, and the first thing my kids did was bust it out and set up WiiFit profiles for themselves. I had to moderate the whole thing, because to an almost 9-year-old and a 5.5-year old, it seemed pretty harsh. My..." [
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4 weeks ago
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"Awesome!
You know, we had a bit of a Wii-breakthrough, and I thought about updating my WiiFit comment in the original post, but maybe I'll throw it in here. After being totally demoralized by the WiiFit's casual frankness in regards to his..." [
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"On the "tough love" side, I once had a friend say to me (in the midst of a similar lamezilla attack, and in the context of a semi-private joke), "Reality check: you are not the piece of shit in the middle of the floor!" Brutal,..." [
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Last month
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"There's all sorts of unspoken rules as far as walking down the streets goes
My favorite walking-down-the-street-in-NY story is from when I used to live in Hoboken and work in the city and took the bus back and forth every day. I usually walked..." [
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"Do they have kids? Was this a rare opportunity to get some nookie without having the kids around?
I assure you that you can fuck just fine in a twin bed.
See, and I was going to say, as someone married for double-digit years with two kids, that..." [
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Last month
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"I don't know... I hear/read this kind of argument, which seems to kind of be a fleshed out consensus of an anecdote, and yet (to put forth my own anecdata) just the other day, when my husband said something out loud about looking something up on..." [
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"When I was working on my first book, and confronting anew my ever-present fraud complex, sure that whatever I wrote would be such crap my editor would consider it more a cry for help than an actual book and that my publisher would demand that I..." [
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2 months ago
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"From the perspective of an interviewee, I can tell you that being even vaguely familiar with the body of work of person you're interviewing, or even just having a basic acquaintance with the new/noteworthy work in particular, will give you a leg up..." [
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3 months ago
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Books that changed your life as a girl
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4 months ago
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"Pema Chodron's book When Things Fall Apart has been recommended lots on MetaFilter -- I also just read/listened to her speaking on the subject of "shenpa" and learning to stay. Basically -- in an enormously simplified nutshell -- she talks..." [
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5 months ago
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"This is awesome. My 8-year-old is desperate for her own Macbook Pro, and has taken to creating her own out of paper (she colors one side grey with a white apple for the logo). Her keyboards have buttons that say "secrets," "[her..." [
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7 months ago
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"Speaking as a mother of two and a wife of nearly 13 years, there is nothing more romantic than a spouse who does the laundry. I'm exaggerating, sure, but not by much. Especially when my kids were little, and I was being touched all day by little..." [
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7 months ago
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"I kept my last name. We now have two kids: our daughter has my last name, our son has his last name. (If I'd known we'd have two kids, and that we'd have a son and a daughter, I would have given the son my name and the daughter his, just to mix..." [
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7 months ago
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"I have four books -- and another one coming out in a big way in just a few weeks: The Daring Book For Girls. I'll be talking about it on the Today Show on the 31st!..." [
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8 months ago
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"doggie-dog
Cute. Supposably things like that are a blessing in the skies. You might take it for granite. But don't make an affidavid out of it.
Reminds me of my favorite phrase ever, as spoken by an interviewee in some A&E..." [
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9 months ago
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"Don't query agents serially -- go to Agent Query to look for likely candidates and query as many as you think will be a good fit for your kind of writing, given their clients, their areas of interests, and their track records. Read Miss Snark for an..." [
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10 months ago
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"A similar tale: The Maiden Without Hands -- this version by the Brothers Grimm has many of the same elements as the Armless Maiden story." [
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"I edited three anthologies that were published last year. In my case, I wrote the book proposals (and included a handful of sample essays by willing writers, whom I knew personally and whom I promised to pay upon securing a publishing contract; plus..." [
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"Yeah, this doesn't sit too well with me. I had an unpleasant first-person experience with something along these lines -- as an author.
Basically: maybe two years ago, a customer ordered a copy of my first book from Amazon. Amazon shipped her a..." [
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"And then, of course, there's this recent story, from a Swedish newspaper last month:
A book reviewer on a Swedish newspaper has got himself into hot water for writing a review of a book that has not been written. To make matters worse, Kristian..." [
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"how do you divide personal/professional time?
Wait, you can do that???
Like baggers said, it's kind of project-dependent. But I have to say, having worked from home as a writer for the last 7 years, that my personal/professional boundary is..." [
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