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Oh You with the Wondrous Taste to be Reading this Blog:

Below is my working synopsis for the novel I’m working on called THE DECADENTS.

I would like to call upon the wisdom of the crowds to help me develop a punchy one- or two-sentence description that I can use at cocktail parties when people ask me what this damn book is about.

So give it a ( Read more... )

-- cross-posted from tribalwriter.com

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I have a problematic relationship with money.

I didn’t learn about it growing up.

I married a man I met in college who, in the course of our marriage, became wealthy. I had no access to any of it other than what he gave me.

My attempts to carve out my own career (and income) as a dark-fantasy novelist got ( Read more... )

When someone treats you badly -- over years -- it leaves you raw and wounded inside.  When you've made repeated overtures of peace to that person only to have your head bitten off -- or to be ignored -- sooner or later you have to come to the realization that this person doesn't care about you and probably never really did (and the signs were there ( Read more... )

I let it slip to a male friend that I thought Andrew Weiner is maybe a sex addict.

“Why?”   He immediately seemed on the defensive.  “Just because he was sexting?  Or because he sent a picture of his - nether regions - to this woman?”

Oh my god, I thought, looking at my friend with bemusement.  You have so totally done that.

“Not that ( Read more... )

cross-posted from Tribal Writer



I posed topless for a female photographer who specializes in boudoir. I’m lying on the bed in a man’s velvet smoking jacket, hair blown across my face. I look at the camera. It’s a beautiful portrait (the photographer is very talented) and I’m proud of it. It reminds me slightly of Manet’s Olympia. That ( Read more... )

cross-posted from www.tribalwriter.com/

“As the late theologian, mystic + Harvard professor Howard Thurman often said, there are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. “The first is ‘Where am I going?’ and the second is ‘Who will go with me?’ If you ever get these questions in the wrong order, you are in trouble.” - Caroline Myss

“We have ( Read more... )

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My first baby son Nevada was born on May 18 and died ten weeks later.  This is the space of time when his memory for me is especially primal and vivid, experienced on multiple levels. It's tough to explain.

The worst years of my life (in order) would be the year following Nevada's death and then the year following my separation (and, in a distant ( Read more... )

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My friends Nia and Sebastian got married before I met them, and I regret that I missed their wedding.  It had a space theme.  The wedding cake was shaped like a planet.  At their anniversary dinner last Friday night, a close friend handed out cupcakes shaped like planets in honor of their cosmic union.

What is this city's obsession with gourmet ( Read more... )

My twins turned 7 and the consequences were immediate: they are no longer allowed to bring stuffed animals to their father's house ( Read more... )