Zoe Fitzgerald Carter | Zoe Fitzgerald Carter
Feb.22.2012
It took crashing the car while texting for my college freshman daughter to start being nice to me again. It happened three weeks into her five-week Christmas vacation, a period characterized by carelessness and defiance on her part and irritation on mine.
From the start, the vacation was a saga...
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Feb.06.2012
A CELEBRATION OF CRAFT, COMMERCE, AND COMMUNITY! This headline for The San Francisco Writers Conference 2012 will provide exactly that and more. Click the link above for the line-up of inspiring bestselling authors, legendary agents, writing intensive workshops, and classes on craft galore.
As The...
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Sep.26.2011
Kara, her parents, Joan and Ted, and her brother Edward circa 1968
Kara Kennedy, daughter of Senator Ted Kennedy, died last Friday, September 16th at the age of fifty-one of a heart attack. A day later, Eleanor Mondale, daughter of former vice president Walter Mondale, also fifty-one, died of...
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May.08.2011
If childhood had a soundtrack, mine would be the hammering keys and intermittent "ping" of a busy typewriter.
From as far back as I can remember, my mother would regularly disappear into her study to write on her IBM Selectric, emerging hours later with piles of papers and empty coffee...
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Apr.21.2011
After years of trusty service and almost no repair issues, my beloved ibook finally gave up the ghost – the hinge between keyboard and screen had actually self-destructed from overuse – and so, with great excitement, I bought a sleek, sexy new 15-inch MacBook Pro.
I figured that the MacBook...
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Apr.06.2011
Most people convicted of murder are understood to have stolen their victim’s life. To have violently ripped it away against the person’s will. Not so Kenneth Minor, a 38-year-old man who was sentenced to 20 years to life this week for killing 52-year-old Jeffrey Locker. Minor’s defense? Locker...
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Mar.17.2011
Recently, I was watching a cable television show with my 14-year-old daughter when, suddenly, the couple onscreen tore off their clothes and began having sweaty and graphic simulated sex. I found myself staring straight ahead, face hot, until the camera cut away.
As the show proceeded, I...
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Mar.15.2011
After a whirlwind 24-hours in New York City to promote my book and attend an award ceremony, I arrived at my sister Sarah’s farmhouse in Northern Vermont ready to relax and enjoy the deep piles of New England snow.
Straight out of a Vermont Life calendar, Sarah’s house is a gorgeous...
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Feb.16.2011
When I first heard about Kombucha, it was from a friend who told me it was made from fermented mushrooms, a piece of misinformation I promptly passed on to numerous friends and acquaintances.
I later found out that the “mushroom” used to make Kombucha is actually a ball of yeast and bacteria...
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Dec.20.2010
Okay, stop the presses, this just in: Baby boomers are in a funk!
According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, forty-five to sixty-five year olds are not feeling the love. In fact, 80 percent of us are pessimistic about the way things are going in this country.
Although the old folks – the...
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