Anne Lamott

10 Ways Meditation Can Change Your Life

MeiMei Fox | Posted 05.05.2012

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MeiMei Fox

I'm just an ordinary person who couldn't sit still for an hour when she first signed up for a Vipassana retreat yet has benefitted tremendously from the simple and challenging practice.

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Anne Lamott: The Moment I Knew I Was Really A Parent

Posted 03.20.2012

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While some parenting books offer preachy "mean girl" advice, Anne Lamott's "Operating Instructions" has become a shining example of a memoir about mot...

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Anne Lamott, On Parenting, Grandparenting and The Secret To Keeping Your Mouth Shut

Lisa Belkin | Posted 05.20.2012

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Lisa Belkin

Reading Anne's books feels like talking to her. Talking to her, it turns out, feels a lot like reading her books -- which are about parenting, faith, writing, love and loss. It isn't happenstance that these all intertwine in her writing, she told us, because they are all braided up in her life as well.

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Books I've Loved and Lost

Allison Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

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Allison Hill

Will printed books cease to exist? I honestly don't know the answer. But I know that I miss the books I've lost along the way, the physical books with their notes, underlinings and associations.

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Mommyhood in Six Words or Less

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cathleen Falsani

Imagine writing your memoir -- a story that encapsulates all of who you are and what you've experienced, wrestled with, and loved -- in six words.

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You Really Going to Give 'Eat Pray Love' for Mother's Day? Here Are Ten Unexpected Books For Mom (PHOTOS, POLL)

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jesse Kornbluth

Mom isn't the little old lady from Pasadena. And you're not a kid anymore. So stun her on Mother's Day --- give her books that don't talk down to her. Like these ten...

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Is Anne Lamott The People's Author? (VIDEO)

bigthink.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Question: Do you like that you're known as "The People's Author?" Anne Lamott: I can honestly say there is nothing I would rather be known as than "T...

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New Books For April

The New York Times | AMY VIRSHUP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is there any richer ore for writers than the family? A number of this month's newly published books mine that vein, whether it's looking at the curren...

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Healthcare Despair

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Susan Corso

Until everyone has health care none of us really do.

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What Makes Us Wise?

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

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Julia Moulden

Is thinking about wisdom part of getting older? Lately, I've been wondering what wisdom is. Here's how my dictionary defines it, "Understanding what...

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