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Birth Stories
Pole dancing in the park with the goddesses at Dance Queens Fitness (6/20/25) A wise teacher at my children's school once told me you can...
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5 days ago3 min read


Breaking Through
(This article was originally published in my weekly newsletter, The Pub Crawl. ) It’s amazing how the pieces of your life can sit in...
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May 84 min read


Balancing Act
(The following post is an excerpt from my weekly newsletter, The Pub Crawl. It's free! Sign up here and get a free copy of my e-book,...
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Apr 123 min read


Love is Water
(The following post is an excerpt from my newsletter, The Pub Crawl. It's a completely free newsletter that comes with a free e-copy of...
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Mar 104 min read


Letting Go
(Originally printed in my weekly newsletter, The Pub Crawl . It's totally free; sign up here if you'd like to hear my ramblings on a...
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Feb 93 min read


On Taking a Break...
(The following is an excerpt from my newsletter, The Pub Crawl , which comes straight to your inbox every Monday morning! It's completely...
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Jan 22 min read


Things I'm Thankful For
Not long ago, on a random Saturday afternoon, I was sitting at the kitchen table with my husband, Chris, absent-mindedly working on...
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Nov 26, 20244 min read


Free Book!
I’m really excited, because I’m on the brink of being ready to launch my newsletter. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a long...
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Oct 12, 20242 min read


The Fall
I’m writing this in the hotel lobby of a Marriott in northern Massachusetts, on my way to Portland, Maine for one of my last events of...
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Aug 30, 20247 min read


Why We Need an Author University
The purpose of this blog has always been to help other writers by giving them insights that I wish I had when I was trying to get into...
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Jul 30, 20243 min read


On The Road Again
Today’s blog post comes to you from a hotel room in Allentown, PA. I’m about 300 miles from my summer home and about 200 miles to my...
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Jun 28, 20244 min read


Say Yes to Everything
I’m writing this from my bed, where I’ve been battling an awful cold for the past week or so. Naturally, I started feeling sick just...
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May 27, 20246 min read


The Long Con
Sometimes I write to stay accountable. To you, reader? Yes. But also to me. I promised myself I would write one blog post a month. We’re...
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Apr 30, 20245 min read


Beating the Odds as a Butterfly
Nobody starts out as an author. We all begin as writers - just normal people with stories to tell. So, we write them down. In a notebook....
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Mar 26, 20245 min read


Dress For The Job You Want
I can’t remember the first time someone told me how important it is to dress for the job you want, not the job you have – but it was...
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Feb 18, 20246 min read


Grieving Through Art
Before I became an author, I wondered so much at how people did it. How do you come up with a 300+ page story about characters that...
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Jan 28, 20244 min read


An Author Walks Into a Book Club...
“Not for my book,” I promised Laura, the girl in charge of the group. “Just to, you know, be in a book club.” Because for all the reading...
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Dec 19, 20233 min read


Thanksgiving Reflections
It’s Thanksgiving Eve, and I’m sitting at my desk in my office. This time last year, I was celebrating the fact that I had crushed my...
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Nov 22, 20233 min read


Making It to the Show
I’m writing this from Minneapolis, the day after Game 2 of the 2023 MLB Wild Card Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Minnesota...
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Oct 6, 20238 min read


When Life Imitates Art
Do you ever have one of those moments where you feel like you’re living inside a story? Well. It’s one thing if that happens in normal...
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Aug 26, 20234 min read
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