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THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN AMERICA

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

OK.  So I’ve really been failing as a blogger, and I’m sure anyone reading this isn’t interested in excuses, but things are getting a little crazy around here.  Sure, there’s the fact that I zoomed right past Voltaire and assorted others to take the #3 spot in essay sales on Amazon yesterday.  And yes, it’s updated hourly and I have fallen since, but it was #$@! amazing to see a picture of my book just below ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY. So amazing, in fact, that I had to print out the page for possible future framing.  But the real reason I haven’t had more time to spend on blogging is because of something I never saw coming.  Suddenly, I’m getting emails from people I haven’t heard from in 10, 15, 20 years.  People I absolutely adored but lost touch with for one reason or another.  It’s incredible.  And it’s especially incredible because when I first read the essays in my book back-to-back (I hadn’t read some of them in years) I saw something that I had never realized before, which was that so much of my writing was about alienation and the desire for meaningful human connection.  So the fact that publishing this book is now allowing me to reconnect with so many wonderful people that I have known over the years sort of takes my breath away.    

As soon as I’m able to breathe again, I’ll get on with the blogging.  For now, I leave you with this quote:  

“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”

Fredrick Buechner  

I love that.  

Off to mess with young minds.  xo