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Jan.24.2012
Let's all be thankful that we have the right to free speech (for the most part) in These United States. We can say whatever annoying thing, whenever we want (for the most part), and not live in fear of government censorship. It's the right that has kept us from bottling up our...
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Aug.02.2011
Some very wise person played Carole King’s classic song You’re So Far Away at Amy Winehouse’s funeral. It was reported in the press that it was one of her favorite songs. Could there be a more poignant choice for the celebration of the life of someone who has died so young? (Below, I’ve posted a...
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Jun.09.2011
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You already know what a sucker I am for Twitter. These past couple of weeks I've been pretty plugged in to the hivemind. Not sure why--it's just one of those seasons. Riding that wave of uncomplicated, virtual friendship and instant gratification feeds something inside me...
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Mar.22.2011
There was this girl. Let's call her Bitsy.
Bitsy was the young woman my middle class self always wished she had been. Moneyed. Athletic. White-blonde, and very lightly freckled. East coast-educated, sorority-bred. Brilliant taste in clothes. Rarely wore more than one or two pieces of jewelry, and...
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Mar.15.2011
There's no law in the U.S. against making an ass of yourself. Yet. But there are always consequences (and please don't take the noose image literally, okay?).
Gilbert Gottfried aka the voice of the AFLAC duck is the latest celebrity to go down because he crossed the...
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Jun.09.2010
I’m about to turn forty-eight years old, and sometime during the last couple of years a gene I thought I was missing finally kicked in. I don’t remember the exact day, though I wish I did. All my life I’d felt the absence of it, and suddenly, significantly, it was there. Finally, I was the proud...
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About Laura
Author of the dark suspense novels Isabella Moon and Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts. Editor of the Surreal South Anthology Series with Pinckney Benedict. Blogger, breadmaker, and best mother ever.*
*or so I'm told
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