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An Editor for Six Days: What I’ve learned and how I hope to apply it to my life as a writer
This post is a bit overdue, but I really wanted to get it out to you, so here goes… Three weeks after my Patch.com experience… It was a blizzard of a week — six days, actually — of “babysitting” a news website for www.patch.com, a hyperlocal news organization now owned by AOL. For six days…
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Magic for Sale and a Giveaway Winner!
So just came back from Orlando, Florida, with lovely family. My favorite ride in all the parks: Harry Potter’s broomstick journey through Hogwarts and beyond. I kept thinking how amazing it is that a single mortal’s imagination resulted in something so tangible.. a cobblestone street for millions of people to walk along . . . bottles of pumpkin…
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Changing Your Fortune: a Grace Lin giveaway
So it’s been a week since the New Jersey SCBWI conference. Already? Well, I am still all fired up and have a busy writing week to show for it! (Many revising hours — very little human contact — or even virtual activity — not as many revised chapters as I’d like for all that work, but that’s another…
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Winners of the BFF giveaway, a too-short long weekend, and 13 days left of school…Heeeelp!
Hi everyone! First, thanks for participating in last week’s BFF giveaway. The signed copy of Joyce Moyer Hostetter’s http://joycemoyerhostetter.blogspot.com/ first book “Best Friends Forever” is going out to Janet Stoltzfus and Clara Gillow Clark claragillowclark.blogspot.com . I will be e-mailing you ladies shortly for your addresses! In other news, did any of you feel like the Memorial Day weekend…
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A Drifiting Friendship And A Giveaway
Nothing is constant in the Universe, except change, great philosophers say. (Change — and love, I would add — sorry Heraclitus!) Have you ever experienced these changes when it comes to friendships? What was the longest friendship you have ever had — and have you managed to keep it going strong through the years? What…
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To Freedom!
So this is Passover week. Tonight, we’re going over to my mom’s house to celebrate the freedom of the Jewish people from the Egyptian pharaoh’s slavery. In remembrance of the struggles of the Jews who had to leave their homes quickly — with no time to leave the dough for the bread to rise — we Jews must not…
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Five Things I Love About Journalism
So sorry I haven’t been here much lately. I haven’t forgotten this blog — my favorite hobby! It’s just that I have been busy not only writing, always writing, but also Changing My Life. I am here for a quick announcement: looks like I am getting back into journalism, folks! For now I am freelancing, mostly for…
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Nuclear Memories
Ever since the nuclear crisis in Japan first unfolded, neighbors and friends have been asking me: “Does this bring back memories?” I was an unsuspecting eight-year-old Soviet citizen living in the Ukraine when on April 26, 1986, a nuclear reactor ruptured in a series of explosions in the small city of Chernobyl some 155 miles…
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To love and revision: a post-Valentine’s Day post
This Valentine’s Day I took a walk with my dog Lucky, something I do every day, but this time, inhaling the miracle of spring-like air. I did something else, too, this Valentine’s Day. Something pretty cool. I . . . finally . . . (deep breath in) . . . FINISHED THE REVISION!!! Yippeeeeeeeee! Well, at least…
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Of Superstitions and Resolutions
It was supposed to be a very American New Year’s eve, a night out with friends, ringing in 2011 in a cloud of noise and alcohol, amidst packs of kids dashing across numerous rooms, clinking champagne glasses in the midst of crazy dancing and screaming. Instead, our daughter got sick, last-minute — recurrent strep throat — and we ended…
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