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One person’s happiness is … musings on marriage

January 5, 2014 by Jessica 10 Comments

Hearing about someone else’s marital problems is a guilty pleasure, but only until it becomes cause for envy. In her new book, Happier at Home, Gretchen Rubin shares the little things that bother her about her husband Jamie (who must be a really good sport to put up with this public laundry-airing). I liked hearing…

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Filed Under: Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: depression, family, Femworking, From Left to Write, Gretchen Rubin, happiness, husband, marriage, partnership, priorities, relationships, spouse, yoga

City mouse, country mouse, suburban mom

November 20, 2013 by Jessica 3 Comments

It’s been a lifelong desire of mine to live many different existences at one time. I wanted to be a jet-setting child actress and also live a life of quiet contemptation from my perch in the treehouse. I wanted to be a busy, driven academic and also a party girl. Today, I want to be…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: books, Brian McGrory, children, city, conflict, country, family, From Left to Write, homestead, marriage, priorities, reading, relationship, relationships, single life, travel, urban

How TV and books influence our thinking about tough subjects

July 27, 2013 by Jessica 1 Comment

Television may have informed my opinions even more than I previously thought. Sure, I’ve complained for years about how I watched too much TV as a child. How I learned social skills by way of backstabbing wives on “General Hospital.” How the girl and girl and guy of “Three’s Company” were as much a part…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: Elizabeth Silver, From Lef, From Left to Write, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

The pull of escape, the pull of retreat

January 31, 2012 by Jessica 3 Comments

This time of year is always good for smacking me around. Even on a sunny day like today, when the quince and camellia are blooming and you swear it can’t be January it’s so warm, winter is in my bones. And my mom’s too.  Right around this time in 1995, while I was doing my…

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