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May.20.2012
It shouldn't have been a surprise but it still was. Maybe because it was right after Donna Summer's death, maybe because May has been The Month The Icons Died. We lost Maurice Sendak, Vidal Sassoon, Jean Craighead George, and we lost Robin Gibb.
The Bee Gees hit fame in the sixties, trying to be...
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May.18.2012
When I heard about this week's topic, yet again I was stumped. I loved illustrated books when I was a kid, still do. Now as an aunt I get to pick books for my niece and nephews, although the older ones are now into chapter books. I gave a Madeline book to a friend's daughter and afterwards she...
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May.17.2012
So it's a typical morning for me. I'm drinking coffee, looking around the Internet. And then I saw Huntington posting a Donna Summer video. This isn't out of the ordinary; Huntington often sings disco around me. He once tried to get me to sing Abba. I did. He never asked again. Wise move. But I...
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May.16.2012
When I knew it was time to put out an essay collection, I kept debating on what its title should be. I wanted something that would jump out at the reader, saying "Come on, read me!" I wanted something that would fit who I was, what I write about.
A year ago I was asked to write an essay...
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May.08.2012
I titled today's blog in honor of Maurice Sendak who died today (he once said the above in an interview) This is one of those times when quite simply, words fail. You need Sendak's pictures to do the talking.
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May.07.2012
All during the weekend I heard a song that immediately reminds me of eighth grade: "Fight For Your Right To Party" by the Beastie Boys. Of course this was because Adam Yauch died at the age of forty-eight, way too young. As mentioned, it reminded me of eighth grade. And how there are times I am so...
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May.04.2012
I woke up this morning feeling good;it's Friday, and tomorrow it will be thirty days until my 40th birthday. Yep, I'm going to be forty. I believe I'm handling it well. I'm not rushing out to get Botox or making plans to just hide in my room on June 5th. No matter what happens, 40 will be an...
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Apr.29.2012
It was overcast that Wednesday. I was in a mood. I'd been in a mood throughout that semester; I was in a college creative writing class and survived my first real critque. Our teacher had to go teach a seminar on something so we had a subsititute that wasn't as, what's the word, nice? It wasn't...
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Apr.26.2012
Last week there was a gasp among authors, writers, and bilbiophiles. Well, maybe I'm stretching it a tad, but there was a shock that there was no award given out for fiction for the Pulitzer Prize. This is like there's no Best Picture, no best album. It's 1994 when there was no World Series....
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Apr.24.2012
Since my bed broke down last month, people have been asking me when I'm going to get a new bed. Mostly they're concerned. I think people think I'm sleeping on the floor with rags as blankets, shivering, my hair in Mary Pickford braids while "The Swan" is playing in the background.
I...
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Apr.20.2012
Last fall I was in a crabby mood; nothing was going right. So I did what any woman would do: I went shopping. Not for shoes or clothes, but the newly released book Caroline Kennedy edited about her mother Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Only this was Jackie in her own words. This was Jackie...
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Apr.19.2012
Saturday mornings in my house belonged to me and ABC. It was Scooby Doo, Josie and the Pussycats, Schoolhouse Rock, and at eleven you'd hear Barry Manilow singing “We're going hopping we're going hopping today, when things are popping, in the Philadelphia way, and all the music they play, I...
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Apr.13.2012
This morning I woke up to thunder outside and "Morning Edition" on NPR. They were talking about surrogate mothers. I sat up and listened to the story about a woman who was matched up with a man in Germany to carry a baby for him with his sperm and a donor's egg. This is nothing new these days....
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Apr.12.2012
is (to paraphrase The Association) the word to describe how I feel right now. Why am I gobsmacked? Well...
I was on KQED this morning to pay tribute to Mrs. Beverly Cleary:
www.kqed.org/a/perspectives/R201204120735
In honor of Mrs. Cleary and David Cassidy (whose singing in The Partridge...
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Apr.11.2012
Now that I'm a best selling author/KQED commentator, things have changed around here. I've taken to wearing sunglasses in the supermarket so I won't be recognized. I've taken to, as Marian Keyes would say, "the twitters" to promote my ebooks. Sometimes I splurge and get tea tree shampoo. But dear...
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they say I'm one of the wonders
of God's own creations
and as far as they can see
they can offer no explanation...
I believe fate smiled and destiny
laughed as she came to my cradle
know this child would be able
laughed as she came to my mother
know this child will not suffer...
with love and patience and with faith
she'll make her way.”
—Natalie Merchant
About Jennifer
Jennifer Gibbons lives in Lafayette, California. She is the grand prize winner of the Red Room Housewarming contest and one of the winners of the Summer Reading Experience Contest. She is working on a young adult novel and a book of essays.
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Causes Jennifer Gibbons Supports
Gilda's Club, Greenpeace, Rosie's Broadway Kids,Westwind Foster Family Agency, Amber Brown Fund, Linda Duncan Fund for Contra Costa Libraries
Jennifer’s Favorite Books
p>To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
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