No one likes Karen. She’s loud and obnoxious. Entitled with a capital E. When she was just an annoying Soccer Mom, we could roll our eyes and move on. But now that racism has been added to the mix, the stakes are much higher—sometimes life-and-death high. So, white women who don’t want to be identified…

My appointment reminded me of my days on Match.com. I was driving to meet a man for coffee, a man I’d only spoken with briefly before on the phone…. Read More Than Their Crimes: One Act Should Never Define a Person’s Life at The Hedgehog Review.

Sometimes I think of footprints. The imprints of dinosaurs. Tyrannosaurus Rex, huge steps that once sent tremors through the earth, now sit silent, petrified. I think of footprints at a murder scene. Work boots, their impressions left in mud, betraying the identity of a killer. Read my review of Adam P. Frankel’s The Survivors on…

Please join Sandy Joy Weston and me for a lively, fun, and intimate conversation on her Let’s Keep It Real podcast – episode 92.

I’m walking into La Strada, a little Italian joint in Merrick, Long Island, on a Wednesday evening, when I see this guy who I think is Steven, slim, gray, and about 5’10, standing beside the bar on his cell phone. Read this article on VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

One Sunday, I was flipping through the Times and stopped short at a photo of a man with a long, scruffy beard. That’s Letterman! I cried. Read my article Mother on Panoply, A Literary Zine

Thrilled to see my essay “Another A&P (My Apologies to John Updike)” in Hippocampus Magazine and Books! Many thanks to Donna Talarico, Writer, Content Strategist, Speaker and Publisher and the editing team!

Please join me this holiday weekend on a trip to the magnificent Northern Cascades with Ana Maria Spagna as our guide. This week’s post is my review of Ana Maria’s magnificent Uplake: Restless Essays of Coming and Going (First published in Entropy on August 5, 2019). When you finish reading, you might just want to pick up a copy…

Published on Lunch Ticket “I’m actually in the best place I’ve been in my whole life. Looking back—and forward—makes me appreciate just where I am. I’ve adopted a “Buddha mind”—a living-in-the-moment-unattached perspective, and it is blissful—much of the time. I am no longer beholden to my children in that day-to-day parenting grind. There was beautiful…

Creative writer, English tutor and FLOBEL advisor Diane Gottlieb is embarking on a rediscovery journey through blogging. Read more at Nectar News