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My first guest blog post drew lovely comments

Posted at Feb 09, 2012 | by Suzanne Grenager | 1 Comments
Years ago I wrote and, with great trepidation, mailed a much-labored-over book proposal to a renowned New York book editor. I had met her quite unexpectedly over the coffee urn at a wedding brunch, where she’d expressed interest in my work. I was sure that what seemed like a wildly serendipitous cup of Joe moment [...]
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Suzanne’s answer to Becky’s big question.

Posted at Jan 19, 2012 | by Suzanne Grenager | No Comments
I am hugely grateful to Alex, Mary and Carol Chris Hudson for their compassionate comments about Becky’s big question. Becky had asked how she can possibly leave the kind of lucrative job she has but hates while her family depends on her for support. Alex encouraged Becky to involve her family, so she doesn’t turn [...]
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Becky’s burning question

Posted at Jan 10, 2012 | by Suzanne Grenager | 3 Comments
The morning after this website went live, I opened my email to find my first message from the site’s Connect page. It was from a stranger named Becky, and the subject heading said: “My Fear.” Becky was writing to ask for help with a huge, very tough life question faced, in one form or another, [...]
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Over the moon and under the porch—it’s B Day

Posted at Dec 11, 2011 | by Suzanne Grenager | 6 Comments
Holy Moly, me-oh-my-oh! I am doing my little happy dance all by myself. My long-awaited B Day is here. (No, I don’t mean my birthday, though it feels like it and then some.) This B is for my bare-naked book. Bare Naked at the Reality Dance, the book I’ve dreamed of and labored over for [...]
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You’d have thought I was going on Oprah

Posted at Oct 18, 2011 | by Suzanne Grenager | 3 Comments
The second I finished the first draft of this post, the fearsome pictures arrived. Thank God—and Goddess (a photographer who, like my book/web designer, is improbably named Shannon)—they are great! But if you’d watched the lead-up to our shoot, you’d have thought I was going to be shot—or on Oprah, a prospect now relegated permanently [...]
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