Claire LaZebnik

Lately, I’ve been thinking about blogging.  I’ve also BEEN blogging, of course.  Which has a lot to do with why I’m thinking about it.  It’s an interesting thing, this strange new world of the Internet. First off, let me see a show of hands.  Who here has his/her own blog?  Has written for someone else’s blog?  [...]

So I have this event to promote my upcoming novel this weekend at a pole dancing exercise studio (I kid you not) called the S Factor in Encino (come by if you can–seriously.  All are welcome).  A couple of other really talented 5 Spot authors will be there and it should be fun.  Except . [...]

I’m still on vacation which means I’m not surrounded by my own things and that’s gotten me thinking.  Among other things, about the keyboard I’m using at the moment which has a space bar that doesn’t work more often than it does which means I have to stop every few words and backspace and redo.  [...]

There we were, watching the women’s team gymnastics event–and by “women,” I mean “girls,” because, let’s be honest, they’re not yet women, which makes the amount of pressure these girls deal with even more incredible.   You probably don’t need me to tell you what happened, but to summarize: the American team was challenging the Chinese for the gold, [...]

I get to go on a real, real vacation in a couple of days!  And, man, I’m ready for it.  Summer’s great even when we’re home–no homework means evenings are virtually stressfree–but those dishes still keep piling up and with our concrete slab exposed because of a flood (long, sad story), keeping the house clean has [...]

When I was a kid, no one in my family ever cried for joy or just because something was moving to them.  We were a real New England family, and tears were only for tragic times (like a death in the family)–although teenage angst and depression wrung a few out of me (but only in [...]

I took my ten-year-old daughter to see “Mamma Mia” today.   It was more fun than I expected, mostly because one number–”Dancing Queen”–was so incredible it brought tears to my eyes.  There’s something about seeing a throng of middle-aged women who LOOK like middle-aged women because they have non-Hollywood, perfectly imperfect bodies dancing and singing like young [...]

I love e-mail.  Write me an e-mail and you’ll get one back, often instantly.  When someone calls me on the phone, my first thought is an annoyed, “Why didn’t that person just e-mail me?”  I’m always near a computer, and that little noise it makes when you get an e-mail–the one where it sounds like something’s [...]