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Sep.15.2011
So…. The Edge of Maybe, my novel forthcoming next March (which really is right around the corner, like it or not), has its own website now. Come visit. Though I’ll be adding more cool things (like podcasts, a book trailer, songs… well, that’s the plan, anyway), you can already:
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Nov.08.2010
I am not rich. I work long hours in a moderately paying profession and raise a child, alone, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Yet I am drowning under house.
I've started -- again -- to get rid of, minimize, distribute Bill's things. Some of this process of dismantling a life I did shortly after he...
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Oct.20.2010
I am wearing purple today in solidarity with my many LGBTQ friends and family members who consider me an ally. We are standing up against bullying, prompted in part by the recent suicides of so many gay and gay-perceived teens and children. Yet this morning, as I put on my purple clothing, I had a...
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Sep.19.2010
What's YOUR idea of the Afterlife? Mine is a big party where we get to talk and talk all night....
http://www.literarymama.com/columns/solo/archives/2010/postmortems_premortems_and_par.html
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Aug.08.2010
"It's January 2000, and Bill, Annie, and I are on an island in Thailand, at the very spot where, almost five years from now, a tsunami will engulf and destroy thousands. I don't know this, of course. Yet I am afraid, filled with a sense of dread and doom unlike anything I have ever felt...
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Aug.05.2010
Please help me title my novel by taking this survey....
Frankly, I've been through so many titles that I've lost my sense of judgment. But you (yes, YOU) can help!
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Jul.05.2010
My most recent Solo column is up at Literary Mama --"The Two-Legged Stool on Vacation."
"A couple of years ago in Oaxaca, Mexico, I met a widow in her mid-seventies who was traveling the world with her husband's ashes, leaving bits of them in all the places they'd been together. I...
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May.30.2010
Hundreds of thousands of readers. Over 500 comments. Fan mail. Blog entries about me. Well, I certainly didn't expect all that, as I sat writing my opinion piece for AOL's ParentDish. The verdict was mixed: I'm either a wonderful, supportive, wise parent.... or I am decidedly not. I think the...
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May.24.2010
(Here's the first part of an article of mine that AOL's ParentDish.com posted today about my daughter Annie and how I'm supporting her decision to drop out of high school. You can read the full article here. Thanks, by the way, to Ivory Madison for connecting me with the AOL folks and bringing more...
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Apr.26.2010
I have a new column up at Literary Mama…
“Traveling alone for the first time since Bill died, I arrive in Budapest, Hungary to teach a one-week seminar at the technical university. I’d planned to fly to Paris after the seminar, and then, four days later, home. But the day after my arrival in...
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Apr.24.2010
Paris is everybody’s favorite city, except mine. I hate it. Yes, I know, it’s amazing. I’ve been sporadically visiting Paris for 30 years and I know all about its glories: the food, the streets, the Seine, the wine, the fashion, the museums and monuments. I agree completely — amazing. And...
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Apr.04.2010
Hey there. I'm headed this week to my first ever writer's conference -- AWP in Denver. Thousands of writers and publishing professionals in one conference center. That's thousands of traditionally solitary people spending days in crowded conference rooms, being social. Networking. Oh god. No...
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Mar.22.2010
I'm back at Literary Mama with a new column called Solo, about my life as a solo mother after an unexpected tragedy, about my impending solo life as my 17-year-old prepares to leave the nest, and about my evolution into a solo performance artist. My first column is called, "Solo Means You're...
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Mar.11.2010
I'm workshopping pieces of my solo show "A Widow's To-Do List" around town a lot in the next couple of months. These are all great shows, interesting line-ups, CHEAP, and a great way to see indie theater.
Come see! I usually have access to discount tickets... so email me and I'll hook...
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Dec.29.2009
A year ago today, my husband died.
My Bill, the man I'd been with for over 22 years, the man who fathered my child and knew me better than anybody on the planet suddenly, unexpectedly, mysteriously, in a strange place, died. Died! It turned me upside down and tore me inside out.
What a year it's...
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About Ericka
Ericka Lutz writes fiction (short and long), non-fiction (creative and commercial), and performance pieces. She's the author of the novel, The Edge of Maybe (March 2012), many short stories, columns, personal essays, and advice books. With a B.A. in...
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