Category: The House on Tenafly Road
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Is It Possible To Write About Happily Married Couples?
The problem is happy people are alienating. They’re annoyingly complimentary to their spouses. They remember birthdays and endlessly talk about fond memories from high school where they met and instantly fell in love. They find charm in their spouses maddeningly gross habits. Their children settle nearby and come over for dinner on Sundays. But happy…
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Codependency Rocks
Okay, it doesn’t really rock, but it’s good for fiction. It’s not even considered a real condition by some mental health professionals. It used to be called “passive dependent personality.” But I thought that was the ideal of womanhood? Men, this is why we too are confused by constantly changing definitions of mental health! Sitting…
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Where Does Beauty Get You?
Thankful Crenshaw I’ve been thinking lately of my female characters and how little I actually understand about them. This isn’t a bad thing because it keeps me curious, but inevitably I get dazzled by their beauty or annoyed by their tendency towards bitchiness. (I’m glad that this word is no longer a cuss because if…
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Beautiful Troublemakers
And this is art. Caravaggio left home young, fled after possibly killing another young man in a fight (he was always fighting) and produced this. Considered by some to be the father of realism in painting, he certainly brings to light a profound moment in human history in a totally accessible way. I love the…
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I Want to Ride my Bicycle!
The New Girl by Sally Mitchell (great book) A confession–I home-schooled my daughter for less than a year. ( I also got donkey basketball cancelled at our town school–but that’s for another day). After days of arguing over multiplication I ended up letting said daughter sleep until noon and go for bike rides for the…
Author Adrienne Morris 