I've received so many wonderful emails and notes from folks who have read on the news that my husband Bob is back in Iraq and Afghanistan three years after his injury in Balad from a roadside bomb. So many people have been so supportive of his desire to go back in honor of those who have served, are serving and who have returned from the wars injured ...
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I woke up yesterday grumpy. That's right. Grumpy. It was graduation day for my son. Almost 18 years of mothering and in some ways, according to custom, it was all supposed to culminate in this. The ceremony, the cap and gown, the beaming face. Lets set aside the fact that it has been the rainiest month I can remember since my twins were born 9 ...
So here I am. I'm at our lake house and its soggy. I've said yes to my kid that as part of his graduation present he can bring friends up here. Girls and boys. Somehow we set a limit and somehow, in the effort not to hurt certain people's feelings, he exceeded that limit without checking with me. As the rain pours down and the TV blares with the ...
I've spent a lot of time on the road in the last two months talking about the new book and giving people homework at the end of a reading. The homework is this-- BE IN THE MOMENT. This, I know, sounds like a Hallmark card. This is what we should be doing, right? But in real time, real life, it isn't always possible. I was at the gym this morning and ...
Here are some photos from Lee's recent appearance at Hooks Books in Washington, DC. Enjoy!