Jennie Nash

Jennie Nash

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Jennie Nash is the author of The Last Beach Bungalow (Berkley Books, February 2008), a novel about a woman who falls in love with a house. She is also the author of The Victoria’s Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming and Other Lessons I Learned From Breast Cancer and Raising a Reader: A Mother’s Tale of Desperation and Delight.

Jennie is an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writing Program. Her work has appeared in scores of magazines including RealSimple, Ladies Home Journal and House & Garden, and in corporate communications for Ford Motor Company, Mattel and Benjamin Moore.

She is currently working on a novel called The Only True Genius in the Family, which is due out from Berkley Books in 2009. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.

You can click here to see her website, jennienash.com.

Blog Entries by Jennie Nash

The Open Road at $3.99 a Gallon

Posted April 21, 2008 | 12:56 PM (EST)


We just got back from a drive across the country - 4,000 miles, twelve states, more than 36 hours of Harry Potter on tape - and our feat has been met by almost universal shock that we undertook such an arduous journey. "How many times did you smack your...

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Faith in Youth Athletics

2 Comments | Posted March 11, 2008 | 04:40 PM (EST)


If youth athletics, as Bill Pennington said in yesterday's New York Times, is a church and parents are a congregation unified by the gospel of college scholarships, I'm happy to pray - and the reasons for my faith have nothing to do with money. While there are certainly a percentage...

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The Emergency Room

5 Comments | Posted January 31, 2008 | 06:15 PM (EST)


On Saturday, I had a monster migraine headache. I tried every remedy ever invented, but still ended up weeping for mercy on the bathroom floor, pinned there for six hours by violent bouts of pain-induced vomiting, telling my husband that I wanted to die. My husband reacted the way most...

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The Dangers of Writing Fiction

Posted January 29, 2008 | 02:02 PM (EST)


One of the things a writer is supposed to do is to strip away the surface of our everyday selves and get underneath what's polished and pretty to the more essential stuff of life. After writing three books about my own life -- about getting married; teaching my kids...

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Surviving Starts With An Assumption

6 Comments | Posted January 18, 2008 | 10:24 AM (EST)


Natasha Singer's New York Times article on the long-term maintenance issues related to breast implants, Do My Breast Implants Have a Warranty? was a smart and insightful look at the aftermath of breast implant surgery. Singer raised questions about what happens to implants five, ten and fifteen years down...

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My New Year's Resolution: Making Peace With Migraine

6 Comments | Posted December 31, 2007 | 01:04 PM (EST)


I saw the movie Atonement last night, and while my companions were discussing the merits of the book versus the movie - a discussion I would have liked to jump into with enthusiasm -- all I could think about was that poor mother in bed with her migraine. There are...

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Almost On Oprah

3 Comments | Posted December 24, 2007 | 01:16 PM (EST)


All the love that Obama is feeling from Oprah these days makes me nostalgic for the times I was close to feeling it, too. I call them my almost-on-Oprah moments and I mention them at cocktail parties, fundraising events, and my kid's water polo games because they mean...

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How To Give A Gift

2 Comments | Posted December 17, 2007 | 11:30 AM (EST)


Desperate not to dread Christmas this year, I made a decision to be more mindful about my gift giving, and yesterday I put the policy into practice for the first time. I gave a beautiful 60-hour pumpkin-colored pillar candle in a frosted glass vase with its own little lid. I...

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Musings on Mother's Day

Posted May 14, 2006 | 05:44 PM (EST)


My mother doesn't like mother's day. She never has. She calls it "one of those manufactured Hallmark holidays," in which people are goaded into buying cards, flowers, and other sappy sentiments out of some misguided sense of obligation. Misguided, my mom would say, because a mother is always a mother....

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