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Apr.19.2012
Dear Friends:
I will be teaching a class on "Navigating the Family Memoir" at The San Francisco Writer's Grotto starting this Tuesday night (April 24th) and continuing the following three Tuesdays.
The class will cover everything from how to write about the people you love without getting...
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Feb.22.2012
It took crashing the car while texting for my college freshman daughter to start being nice to me again. It happened three weeks into her five-week Christmas vacation, a period characterized by carelessness and defiance on her part and irritation on mine.
From the start, the vacation was a saga...
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Dec.15.2011
Catching sight of the rows of bottles in my neighborhood wine store the other day—a holiday banner hanging merrily in the window—I felt a pang of sadness and regret. Each of the artfully displayed bottles seemed filled with the promise of sensual delight. I could almost taste the chilled...
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Sep.26.2011
Kara, her parents, Joan and Ted, and her brother Edward circa 1968
Kara Kennedy, daughter of Senator Ted Kennedy, died last Friday, September 16th at the age of fifty-one of a heart attack. A day later, Eleanor Mondale, daughter of former vice president Walter Mondale, also fifty-one, died of...
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Jun.05.2011
After championing the rights of the sick and suffering to get help ending their lives -- and providing that "help" to scores of terminally ill patients -- Dr. Jack Kevorkian died of natural causes on Friday at the age of 83.
According to Geoffrey Fieger, the lawyer who represented...
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May.08.2011
If childhood had a soundtrack, mine would be the hammering keys and intermittent "ping" of a busy typewriter.
From as far back as I can remember, my mother would regularly disappear into her study to write on her IBM Selectric, emerging hours later with piles of papers and empty coffee...
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Apr.21.2011
After years of trusty service and almost no repair issues, my beloved ibook finally gave up the ghost – the hinge between keyboard and screen had actually self-destructed from overuse – and so, with great excitement, I bought a sleek, sexy new 15-inch MacBook Pro.
I figured that the MacBook...
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Apr.06.2011
Most people convicted of murder are understood to have stolen their victim’s life. To have violently ripped it away against the person’s will. Not so Kenneth Minor, a 38-year-old man who was sentenced to 20 years to life this week for killing 52-year-old Jeffrey Locker. Minor’s defense? Locker...
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Mar.17.2011
Recently, I was watching a cable television show with my 14-year-old daughter when, suddenly, the couple onscreen tore off their clothes and began having sweaty and graphic simulated sex. I found myself staring straight ahead, face hot, until the camera cut away.
As the show proceeded, I...
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Mar.15.2011
After a whirlwind 24-hours in New York City to promote my book and attend an award ceremony, I arrived at my sister Sarah’s farmhouse in Northern Vermont ready to relax and enjoy the deep piles of New England snow.
Straight out of a Vermont Life calendar, Sarah’s house is a gorgeous...
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Feb.16.2011
When I first heard about Kombucha, it was from a friend who told me it was made from fermented mushrooms, a piece of misinformation I promptly passed on to numerous friends and acquaintances.
I later found out that the “mushroom” used to make Kombucha is actually a ball of yeast and bacteria...
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Jan.10.2011
In a hugely disappointing move, the Obama administration has abruptly backed away from supporting a frank and open discussion about end-of-life planning between doctors and their elderly patients.
Only three days after implementing a new regulation that provided Medicare coverage for doctors...
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Dec.20.2010
Okay, stop the presses, this just in: Baby boomers are in a funk!
According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, forty-five to sixty-five year olds are not feeling the love. In fact, 80 percent of us are pessimistic about the way things are going in this country.
Although the old folks – the...
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Dec.05.2010
It may be hard to find the silver lining in the economic downturn, but the recession has given me at least one important gift: It has cured me of my shameful habit of overspending at Christmas.
For years, I've vowed to cut back and spend less -- and every one of those years, I failed utterly....
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Oct.19.2010
Having known a number of incest survivors over the years, including a close friend who suffered from horrific abuse as a child, I find the notion that women might fabricate their stories of sexual abuse both unbelievable and offensive. In fact, I have always assumed that anyone who doubted...
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About Zoe
I'm a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and have written for numerous publications including The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue and Salon. Imperfect Endings is my first memoir. The book won first place in the Pacific Northwest Writer'...
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