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Apr.16.2013 The Last Days of the Dome: Just Another Town Sunday was bright and warm. I want to get as many pictures of the dome as I can before it is torn down, so I went over there early afternoon. Taking the exit I saw the theater from the ramp. It was the same as always; the movie in the dome is in red letters, the rest in black. I know it will...	Nov.15.2012 "Avalon" A Family Split in Film Written by Mattius Thuresson and directed by Barry Levinson, the film Avalon is, by far, my favorite intergenerational story. With its realistic mix of warm humor, sudden tragedy and triumph, the tender and beautiful film is reminiscent of...
Sep.07.2012 Leggo My Eggo, You Dear-Burgler I wasn’t going to admit this to anyone, because the last time I did, it was met with uproarious laughter. But this morning, eleven years later, I’ve been vindicated by The New York Times. In the fall of 2011 my husband and I moved from Manhattan, with our two children, to the New...	Jul.02.2012 Cars Transportation: a vital part of American culture. We live in suburbs, in subdivisions, in houses. Houses that run along streets, avenues, courts. Streets that connect to roads, intersections, highways and interchanges. We travel inside our private soap bubbles; windows closed tight, as the air...
Feb.13.2012 my childhood, as directed by David Lynch Subdivision Under the mattress in the guestroom, I couldn’t find the word for “enough”. The word for “born animal”. The what kind, the what kind. Police whispering, entering the kitchen, slipping out my bedroom window. The crackle of deer picking through bottles in...	Aug.03.2011 AUTHOR'S FIFTH BOOK ARRIVES It's been awhile since I've blogged, but I'm back to let everyone know my fifth book, GROWING UP LEVITTOWN: IN A TIME OF CONFORMITY, CONTROVERSY AND CULTURAL CRISIS, has arrived and is now for sale on Amazon and other e-book websites.
Jul.16.2011 Skin Deep Writing This Beautiful Life, by Helen Schulman Image via Barnes&Noble I have good news, and I have bad news. But first a (very little) bit about the story. A young girl appears naked on the Internet. A boy notices, and in some state of discombobulation, he passes the link on to a friend. Of course,...	Jan.18.2010 The "Intention" of Business The Intention of Business The other day I got an interesting e-mail from a former Starbucks middle manager. He said that he had read my book and brought it up at a lunch with two of the early driving forces behind the company’s growth. Specifically, he mentioned a section of the book where I...
Oct.02.2009 perhaps a true story Neighbors The boy two doors down likes to bite, too, but his mother makes him eat soap after, and so through the summer-propped windows we hear their struggles in the bathroom, his shrieks as she grabs his mouth, the slipping as he knocks the bright yellow lozenge from her hand, and then sobs for...	Jan.28.2009 That Pleasant Hill Girl I just read Veronica Chater's story Flea Spit, which was set in Pleasant Hill, California. Reading it was a blast from the past, because Pleasant Hill is my hometown, the town I lived in for years. It was a small town, a suburban town. The first time my mother drove through the town she thought...

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