Stone Garden produced a hugely positive full-page NYT Sunday Review and my being chosen as a NYT Notable book. I received fan letters from people that told me they had never laughed or cried so much reading any other book and some that said it was the best thing they had ever read. Now, twenty years later I have written four rejected novels, rejected at times by my agent and others by publishers after an agent submitted the novels. Each has taken years to write.
Read MoreI had my first cold at sixty-five. Well, I still have it. I’m still coughing like Courtney Love after a night of cigarettes and heroin or one of those women who die of consumption in old movies. It’s the kind of cough that makes you check the tissue to be sure it isn’t spotted with blood. So far it has lasted a week, the cough, the congestion, the headache, the exhaustion. I find the whole thing annoying and unacceptable.
Read MoreThis understanding was deepened when I attended a party where the host had supplied wonderful food, a number of games, a whole organized playlist, but when I arrived, I was left to find a place for my coat, the host being in deep conversation and I never found the sense of belonging that eases many social situations.
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