Downtown Abbey and the Classless Society
There aren’t that many cultural phenomena that transcend generations these days, but one of them has recently arrived in the form of a veddy British period piece called “Downton Abbey.” As everyone...
View ArticleMothers and Daughters
It’s common knowledge that it’s tough to be a teenage girl, especially towards the end of high school. Cliques, boys, emotional upheavals, term papers, SATs, college essays—and the prospect, both scary...
View ArticleCareer Re-Entry: A Perilous Prospect
Finding a job these days is a daunting prospect. But imagine how much more daunting it can be if you haven’t held a job for the past ten, fifteen, even twenty years. You worry that employers will look...
View ArticleWho Are You Calling “Catty”?
The other evening I visited a book group that had read The Mother Daughter Show—something I’m always happy to do. After the usual preliminaries, one of the women (as usual, all the members were women)...
View ArticleA Vengeful Screed?
I’m about to do something that no author should ever do: respond to a negative review. Generally speaking, I abide by the rule that one should take one’s lumps in silence. It’s never easy to hear...
View ArticleBlog Slog
I’m going to be on blog hiatus for a while. That is, I’m going to be writing for other people’s blogs instead of my own. This is what’s known as a “blog tour.” When I started telling people that The...
View ArticleBlog Tour Rollout!
Are you ready? The Mother Daughter Show book blog tour begins July 1 and runs through the end of the month, with 14 different stops! Me, I’m more than ready: I’ve already written the various posts or...
View ArticleTraveling Books
This evening, on my way to the pizza place around the corner from my house (what a godsend—a place that sells gourmet pizza that you pick up raw and bake at home, albeit for a hefty price), I happened...
View ArticleNever Say Never–or First
When people ask me what I’m working on, I generally say this: a historical novel set in 1807 that’s based on the life of a woman named Eliza Anderson, who was–as far as I’ve been able to determine–the...
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Don’t believe everything you hear about rising graduation rates
Six months after a story celebrating the fact that all graduating seniors at one of D.C.’s lowest-performing high schools were admitted to college, NPR has reported a major qualification. Most of those...
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