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Berkeley YWCA Festival of Women Authors | Saturday, February 1st, 2014

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Come join me as the Berkeley YWCA host me and three other authors–Patricia Bracewell, Kelly Corrigan, and Liz Jasper– for the 20th Annual Festival of Women Authors 2014.

Saturday, February 1s, 2014– 9 a.m.–2 p.m.

at H’s Lordships, Berkeley Marina, Berkeley, California

An all-day affair discussing our love for books and how we came to writing.

Click here to purchase tickets.

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The Dance Between Words and Paint, Paper and Canvas

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“To re-present words is far more difficult, because the relation is so close between model and artist. The novelist works in the very material out of which the object he is trying to render is made. He must use, to express soul, the signs which soul uses to express it self. It is relatively easy

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Of Blogposts, Children and Immortality …

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I have not written a blog post in over a year.

Life’s been busy. Our youngest, now a freshman in high school, needed my attention.

I needed to know that I was giving her the best of me, and the time she required in trying to grow up.

Navigating the world of childhood is not easy.

I sometimes think that, we here in the American culture, approach

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Of Divya’s Review of “Seasons in Purdah” …

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Divya’s Review of Seasons in Purdah @ Goodreads.com
5 of 5 stars *****
Read from February 03 to 07, 2013
Feb 28, 13

“The dreamer is any and everything in their dream, but what if other people have experienced the same dream, shared the experiences with you?” Just a couple of days or so before I read Seasons in Purdah I was having a conversation with a friend about out of body experiences and dreaming. I was telling her how a dream is an out of body experience. And she asked, ”So if you are dreaming about me, and it is indeed an experience, then I must experience it too …” and then we were wondering that perhaps people do have the same dreams.

Seasons in Purdah is a metaphorical journey of

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Of Mothers, Daughters and Marilyn Monroe …

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A recent study conducted at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois concludes, “ … most girls as young as six years old are already beginning to think of themselves as sex objects.”

The voluminous hours of watching television has taken its toll on girls of all ages and has reached the youngest of females.

But our daughters are not the only ones affected.

Researchers offered more information concerning factors influencing

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Of Riding Ellipticals, Counting Minutes, and The Challenge of Parenting …

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Like the teacher in my psychology program who said that the hardest thing about parenting was the time required, I find that I never have enough.

Mothering three daughters, seeing to my husband, or rather attending our marriage, along with my work as a psychotherapist, and writing novels proves daunting.

I count minutes in much the same way that I count calories.

Frustration continually arises as I reprimand myself for lack of efficiency.

“I’m working as hard as I can,” I say to myself.

 But am I working smarter?

I do not know.

Personal experience has

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Of Don Imus, Roland Martin and the March of the Penguins …

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Our three daughters have attended for the most part, private schools.

This is a mixed blessing.

While private education usually offers a wealth of academic excellence, oftentimes it lacks emphasis on the importance and understanding of temperance, along with human responsibility and moral judgment, all of which operate and necessary ingredients in creating a successful life.

The children who taunted the

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