Table of Contents
Why She Wrote When She Wrote 1
Facing Face-lifts 5
Chills in the Hot Sun 17
Heartbreak 21
Expensive Clothes 25
The Elephant in the Room 31
Separate Bedrooms for Marcia and Larry 35
From Cosmo to Ms. 41
Chocolate Chemo 49
The Giant Named Tourette's 53
Little Blue Pill 61
Jeremy Hit Rock Bottom 65
The Dictator, the Farmer, and the Professor 71
To Sleep or Not to Sleep 75
The Art of the Faux Pas 79
Eavesdropping on Adultery 83
Par for the Course 89
Trudie Foodie 95
Her Disappearing Act 101
Mammogram Day 103
Labor Day Weekend Labors: A Hateful Three Days 107
A Dog's Dying 115
First Kiss 119
I Hated Teddy and Teddy Hated Me 123
The Humble Beginnings of My Somewhat Spiritual Self 133
Picture Perfect (Almost) 137
To Lose a Child 141
The Larry Kramer 145
Melissa Van Holdenvas 153
A Day at Will 159
Frenemy 163
Letter to a Dead Great-Aunt: A Personal Memoir 169
A Million-Dollar Smile 175
Eunice's Period Stopped 179
Did You Ever See a Book Cry? 185
Advice to Women in a Male-Dominated Workplace 189
Do You Believe in Santa Claus? 195
The Cookie Wars: WM. vs. Mrs. Spatz 199
Mentor Not 205
The Day She Lost Her Jealousy at Barneys 215
Imaginary/Real 219
What's in a Name? 227
A Man with a Scythe Rang My Doorbell 233
+1.75: An Insight 237
Gliding Gracefully into Gravity 241
The Wrong Kind of Hot 245
To Fur or Not to Fur: Eden's Dilemma 251
The Art of Book Signing 259
Acknowledgments 267