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Annabelle Gurwitch, Meet Your Namesake

posted Friday June 27th, 2014

The line dwindled, the authors stopped signing books and were chatting with each other, looking bored. It was time. “Okay, Annabelle,” I said, nudging her. “Let’s go introduce ourselves.” As a rule, I don’t line up to meet authors. Not authors I like, anyway, not since a bad encounter many years ago with T.C. Boyle. […]


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Kidploitation? Or something else?

posted Monday June 9th, 2014

The other day I did some housekeeping on Girl in a Party Hat, which included updating the blogroll, and I was struck by how many of my fellow bloggers have stopped blogging — or, at least, haven’t updated their blogs in a year or two. I get it. I started my blog when Sophie was […]


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The Miracle Workers

posted Friday June 6th, 2014

In an effort to break up the “Full House” rerun marathon threatening to continue through the summer,  last night I took the girls to see a community theater production of “The Miracle Worker.” I was a little obsessed with Helen Keller when I was a kid, and Sophie already owned a copy of the script […]


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My Birthday, A Guest Post by Sophie

posted Tuesday June 3rd, 2014

hi every one this  is Sophie  i am 11  and i got a phone  so i did a sachions  and   the  1 one is cuddle   the 2 is nils  and  the 3  is fashion    and 4 is phpter i booth  that was fun and  the last a stumbler  pray with my reply […]


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