(image by Paul Citone) 1. My hubby celebrated another birthday this week. I won't say the number out loud because he'd probably feel better if I didn't. But to me, his age has always been a plus. He was the first real man I ever dated and the moment I realized that I never looked back. I had a few gift ideas for him,...

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“Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you...

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Starting tomorrow, I'm doing a social media detox, because—to be honest—it’s killing me. No Instagram, no Facebook and no Twitter or Snapchat (even though I'm rarely on those). I’m going to start with seven days, but I’m hopeful that I can make it much longer. Here’s why I’m doing it:  1. I need to break the comparison cycle. She has this, he has...

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1. If you're already having a weird day, don't pour yourself a glass of wine or eat chips for dinner. Or pour yourself that second glass of wine. It's never a good idea. You'll feel worse in the morning, I promise you. I learned this the hard way. 2. It's really frustrating to me that one day, I can manage to get 2,300 words...

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Happy release day to my girl, Kandi Steiner. She killed it with this one, you're going to want to pick up a copy for yourself and all your girlfriends. SYNOPSIS Wren Ballard is trying to find herself.She never expected to be divorced at twenty-seven, but now that the court date has passed, it’s official. The paperwork is final. Her feelings on it aren’t....

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1. I try not to be the kind of person that imagines their life looking any different than just the way it is, but sometimes... sometimes I catch a glimpse of a beautifully dressed woman in impeccable heels getting into her Mercedes and I wonder what her week will look like. Or I turn to my husband and say: in another life, I'd...

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1. It's been interesting, this week, to see how people respond when it comes up in conversation that Dom and I just celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary. We get one of two responses: either a semi-disinterested stare and a barely audible grunt (which I take as a "ha! six years is nothing, just you wait until you've been married as long as me...

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1. Sometimes I'm irrationally scared to go back and look at things I've written in the past. I'm worried that no matter how much I liked the writing at the time I wrote it, it will now seem somehow less than. As a writer, all I really want is to keep working and improve my skill set. To look back at something I...

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