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Back Off, You!
What IS this thing called boundaries? Where can I get some?
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Meet Nan Tepper
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Doomed from the Womb
A story of covert incest. The unhealthy emotional bond between a parent and child.
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A Notebook Didn't Make Me A Writer
Writing did. Where I came from and how I finally claimed my dream.
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I Became A Mother Late In Life
Last week, I adopted the little girl I always dreamed of having
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You’re Not My Mother
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Her Very First Time
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The Elephant in My Room
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His Last Night
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The Podcast: Real Life Stories from The Next Write Thing

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Welcome Home
Listen now | I remember that I’m home wherever I go, because "home" resides within me.
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My Big Night Out!
Listen now | “Why did I bother?” I say to myself, shaking my head, “I won’t meet anyone tonight.”
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8:27
Don’t Tell Me What To Do!
Listen now | Or think, or feel, or how to wear my hair…
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A Daily Dose of Radical Acceptance and Joy
Listen now | I begin to learn by practicing with my girl; she teaches me tenderness.
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8:51
Solo Flight
Listen now | One arm out in front of me, doing my best Captain Marvel impersonation
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On the Power of Names
Listen now | A conversation with little Nan
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Recovery

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Back Off, You!
What IS this thing called boundaries? Where can I get some?
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A Notebook Didn't Make Me A Writer
Writing did. Where I came from and how I finally claimed my dream.
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I Became A Mother Late In Life
Last week, I adopted the little girl I always dreamed of having
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You’re Not My Mother
And wishing doesn’t make it so.
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It’s Shocking. Just Shocking.
They put an oxygen mask over my mouth and nose and ask me to count backwards from 100 by sevens. I never make it past 86.
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No, Please. Allow Me...
How I stopped trying to save everyone else and just take care of myself.
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The Elephant in My Room
If it’s okay for an elephant to be big, why isn’t it okay for me to be big?
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What Was The Name of That Book?
When a steel trap mind goes missing...
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Childhood

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This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You
Listen now | When a 1960s dinner party goes awry.
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Hi There, Cupcake!
The floating birthday party circuit of my childhood.
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Finders Keepers
When having an eagle eye comes in handy.
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I Am A Minimalist
AKA Please don’t get me anything. I don’t like stuff.
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I Was A Baby Feminist
“What are you? Some kind of women's libber?” The venom in his voice was corrosive.
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Don’t Paint the Kitchen Green
A love story.
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Do It My Way, or Don’t Do It at All
What happens when things don’t according to MY plan…
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I Shook His Hand
Two teenaged girls go to the Met in 1974. What could possibly go wrong?
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Family

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Doomed from the Womb
A story of covert incest. The unhealthy emotional bond between a parent and child.
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A Five, Six, Seven, Eight!
My love affair with Broadway.
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Cha-Ching!
Listen now | My first time gambling, with my dad...
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Joyce Zonana and Her Last Dream Home
A woman I fell hard for. A woman I barely knew.
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But, On the Other Hand
We always have an opportunity to do better than we did yesterday.
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Not A Peep Out Of You!
Passover in North Miami Beach, 1982
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His Last Night
I needed a ritual of some sort to come to peace with his pending departure.
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Can’t You Knock Before You Come In?
On discovering the book Our Bodies, Ourselves in 1978
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