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Essays
- And then some history happened, and here we are.
- The Bulldozer
- Be A Happy Warrior
- The Perils of Prophecy
- Vindication
- “The Question Is”
- Survivalism
- “The Schools”
- “How Kind of You to Come”
- Creating a Character Template
- Rejecting the Gratitude Challenge
- “Mom, What’s the Right Age to Start Having Sex?”
- Don’t Pray for Peace
- Alligators and Flash Fiction
- What Are We Preparing Our Students For?
- “Unconvincing”
- The People’s MFA
- “The Goldfinch”
- Hungry
- Querying is Like Hell, Except Your Friends Aren’t There, Part I
- A Terminal Curable Disease
- Bigger
- Expanding the Universe
- Today’s Reason to Love the Humans
- “A Hologram for the King”
- What Would Dashiell Hammett Do?
- “Popping the Hood”
- Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
- The End.
- “Following”
- A New Year Every Day
- We Don’t Need Books to Free. We Need Them to be Brilliant.
- An Angel Packs a Suitcase
- The Other Julie Goldberg
- Lobbing Nerf Rocks
- Improvised Emergency Oil Candles
- “The Circus of Dreams”
- Perfect Whole, Superstorm Sandy Edition
- “One Lovely Blog”
- Unfriended
A few things I was thinking about…
Obsessions
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Recurring dreams
- 5_Part_Series
- advice
- anti-bullying law
- A Room of One's Own
- attachment parenting
- authors
- baking
- blessing
- blogging
- books
- Bothmind
- brain
- bullying
- buttercream
- children
- cocoon therapy
- commercials
- concussion
- conflict resolution
- consciousness
- consumerism
- diane ravitch
- digital immigrants
- digital natives
- DNTO
- economy
- editing
- education
- education reform
- employment
- entrepreneurship
- feminism
- flash fiction
- freaks
- freedom
- freewriting
- geeks
- internet
- letterboxing
- libraries
- love
- magnificent nose
- Marc Prensky
- materialism
- midlife crisis
- motherhood
- news
- NJ Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights
- Obama
- PACC
- perfectionism
- poetry
- politics
- popularity
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- power
- publishing
- reading
- relationships
- religion
- romance
- soul
- suicide
- survival
- teaching
- technology
- television
- The People's MFA
- turret
- unknown unknowns
- Virginia Woolf
- Waldorf education
- weeding
- wisdom
- writing
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And then some history happened, and here we are.
Perfect Whole has been private for the past seven months because I was running for New York State Senate. Longtime readers of this blog (all four of them!) know that nothing on here could be construed as scandalous, nor do … Continue reading
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Vindication
In the Afterlife is a palace for artists, scientists, and visionaries who died penniless, unrecognized, or forgotten, but whose genius has been vindicated by history. Van Gogh, Dickinson, Melville, Tesla, Lovelace, Poe, and many others toast each other for all … Continue reading
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“Unconvincing”
Please check out my flash fiction, “Unconvincing,” on Neil Fein’s Magnificent Nose, part of “Flash Fiction Week VI: Fathers, Mothers, Others.” Next on Perfect Whole, look for a guest post by Rich Smith about the intense pressure placed on students … Continue reading
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A Terminal Curable Disease
I’ve been brewing an essay on the illness that is perfectionism for a long time now. It’s not quite cooked yet. But this morning, after a terrible loss in our community, the thought came out like this: Be a beautiful … Continue reading
The Other Julie Goldberg
If you have arrived at Perfect Whole today looking for the Julie Goldberg who wrote the Modern Love essay in the New York Times this week, “A Disaster Scenario, Rewritten,” you have not come to the right place (although this place is … Continue reading
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Improvised Emergency Oil Candles
(Just for a change, a practical post.) Several people asked me about the oil candles I referred to in Perfect Whole, Superstorm Sandy Edition, so I thought I would post some pictures and directions for anyone who also finds herself … Continue reading
