Great Gatsby Gala “I hated reading the Great Gatsby in high school. Didn’t you?” I asked my husband as I stepped into my new black sequined flapper dress. We were ten …
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Fearless
A poem by Guest Contributor Priya Patel Fearless Fearlessly I walk two steps forward; not the two steps back like in the past I walk ahead of you at last I am fearless no …
A Coffee, a Flirt and Secret Friends: Writing a New Novel Character
I got to Starbucks early today and had the privilege of overhearing business people do their schmoozing thing while I worked on the novel. Their conversations of frustration and deceit in their jobs …
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A Coffee, A Flirt, and Secret Friends: Writing My Novel
I struggle to see my laptop screen, and I’m sweating in the sun wrapping around me through the glass wall at Starbucks. A couple of women in tennis skirts are sitting at the table beside me, …
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The Morning After Thanksgiving
My growling stomach woke me up this morning around 4:30 am. I am normally not a big breakfast eater, but my belly taunted me relentlessly as I squeezed my insomniac’s eyes shut, …
Culture-Schmulture, I’m Sitting With the Guys
My husband and I met twenty six years ago this month on a humid Memphis night. I was sixteen and scooped ice cream at the local Baskin Robbins to earn money …
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