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An advance review of my book, Maya Blue A Memoir of Survival, said my life and death survival instincts are like Jason Bourne’s: I don’t hesitate and time and again, I do what’s necessary to survive. Like when I jumped from a second-story bathroom window, hoping the oak tree four feet away and its branches

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I noticed that my hand was shaking as I slipped the key into the lock. I turned it slowly as

The other day I heard a woman tell her girlfriend that to keep from being disappointed, she had lowered her

I’d never seen anyone quite so beautiful before, certainly not in the flesh. After a long day of driving across

It’s my first year of college and I’m madly in love. So is my best friend. The problem is, we’re

My mother taught me how to read. Home schooled until my teens, our kitchen was my classroom and my back-to-school

Today women are killing themselves at an alarmingly rate, especially women between the ages of 60 and 65. 1010ParkPlace is

My boss was already at work, and that was a surprise because I almost always beat him in. As I

I’ve been thinking a lot about reinvention, partly because summer is upon us. These hot humid evenings, spent lingering over

It’s the end of summer, and I’m in the grips of a dark cloud. I repeatedly awaken to a fog

On two different days this week, I found a big, praying mantis in my Texas kitchen. The first one was

A couple of years ago Lesley Jane Seymour, Editor-in-chief of MORE magazine, and I were on a panel together at

While how we look is important to our self esteem, there’s more to feeling better about ourselves than just our

Depression and drinking can go hand in hand. Women often self-medicate by telling themselves that work, depression and problems sleeping