My mother tells me that I read my way through third grade. Less interested in multiplication facts or the elementary school games of my peers, my nose was often buried in a book–cozied up in the top bunk in the room I shared with my sister, curled up on the living room love seat with a slice of American Singles to snack on, or plopped down [...]

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The tree is down – all the needles have been vacuumed up and the ornaments carefully placed in the storage closet. The room looks bigger now: fresh, open and full of possibilities.  And so it is with this new year and this new decade. As we turn the page on 2009 and the aught years of the 21st Century, [...]

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After a delayed flight and a wrong-way ride on the Metro, I arrived at my hotel too late to participate in the opening evening of the 9th Annual Story Weekend in Washington, D.C. last Thursday. While I was really disappointed, the remaining two days, by a wide margin, made up for that first evening’s mix-up.
The [...]

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