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 Tonight Gary and I are pretty excited to be seeing Eric on the drums with his band, Dr. Dog, opening for the Lumineers at Citizens Bank Park, which seats around 42,000 people and is where the Phillies baseball team plays. So of course the universe conspired to make this kind of a baseball story. To further preface this, I am still torturing Gary and making him do Swedish Death Cleaning.&

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 I freely admit I’m losing it lately, as one does when they feel their entire existence is being threatened by an authoritarian government, but what happened this week was a good one even for me.It all began when Eric called to say Hi. He filled us in on all kinds of great stuff happening in his life, including a new puppy Mo, picture below, joining his other pup, Herbie, so now we have

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It’s the headline todayhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/former-school-of-rock-students-say-they-were-harmed-but-paul-green-kept-teaching-until-long-buried-allegations-came-to-light/ar-AA1KcKxQ

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 So, I am going to go against my self-imposed policy of keeping my health updates private and tell you about my latest. I hate to do this, but this post will be the first my kids know, too.  Let me preface this to say I really don’t like going to the doctor.  I worry in advance weeks before I have to see him. And ever since I learned I have a wonky heart, my pre-appointment

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 Okay, I’m officially done watching the news and going forward, I am seriously just going to pretend he’s dead.In other news, Gary and I have been so involved in projects lately, I haven’t had time to promote my new book. If you haven’t snagged one yet, here’s the link:  https://a.co/d/dPxFnWNI really appreciate the reviews my kind friends have left on Amazon and Goodreads. Thanks so

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Guys, can you do me a favor? Please visit this link and vote for my book :) https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/leaving-candyland-robin-slickAnd if you haven’t procured it for your summer reading, perhaps I can tempt you with an excerpt?Thanks ❤️❤️❤️Candyland is crumbling. I walk down Penny Lane with my eyes squeezed almost shut so I don’t have to see it deteriorating in the late

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 The Real School of RockRichard Linklater’s classic 2003 movie starred Jack Black as a dorky but harmless music teacher. The real-life School of Rock founder’s former students tell a more sinister storyBY EZRA MARCUSMAY 3, 2025READING TIME: 23 MINUTESLate at night on New Year’s Eve 2005, Carolyn Satlow, 17, and a group of her friends sneaked into their music school after hours

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Guess what? It’s publication day! Nope, not an April Fools joke, although who else but me could have their pub day on April 1? I put a lot of love into this book and I hope you enjoy it ❤️Leaving Candylandhttps://a.co/d/5HGVECk“You finally reach your golden years, only to find that late life isn't your imagined idyllic paradise.In Leaving Candyland, baby boomer Robin Slick offers an unfiltered,

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 Gary: I have a present for you. You’re gonna love it.Me: Ooh ooh what?Gary, handing me item in photo:  Am I right?Me: Totally.I’m instantly transported to the early 60s, when I was a little girl and wanted a princess phone more than anything in the world. My mom worked as a poll worker during the elections to earn a few extra dollars and a Bell Telephone rep handed those out to people

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 If you have followed my writing for the past twenty years, a recurring theme is that my higher power has a very dark sense of humor.Welp, it’s officially confirmed.Who else but me could have their new novel coming out in what a lot of people think is the darkest, most depressing month in our nation’s history?I rest my case.That said, if you could use a laugh right now, I’m your girl.“

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 Hello!What a shock to realize I haven’t written here since March! So many awesome things have happened and for someone retired, I have been crazy busy but incredibly happy, and now I’m honestly coming off the best birthday I have ever had in my life.I didn’t have just one day, I’m having a birthday summer.As one should when they reach a momentous age.It really started in April when I

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Our neighbor of 45 years—and Jasper’s beloved babysitter—died today.Gary and I watched with horror from our kitchen window. The distraught father shouting on his cell phone and clutching his baby outside—he must have discovered her body by looking in her front window when she didn’t answer the door to customarily care for his child on Monday—the ambulance that arrived and the attendants who

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 Gary and I are married fifty one years today.Yeah, I know, how is that possible when we don’t even remotely look like we’re fifty? Har har.Here’s my post from last year, prepared with love on our 50th.  What a long strange trip it’s been—hey, this morning we even got congratulations from a Talking Head.We got married at eighteen and much to the disbelief of everyone who attended

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Me since yesterday, after learning my novel is being considered for publication along with four other writers, with seemingly my biggest competition a book about a talking cabbage. I sense I’m going to have to rewrite my epitaph 😂

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  That feeling when you learn your new novel is still in contention by visiting your wishlist publisher’s website and seeing a line taken straight from your query on their latest news page.“From a former Navy pilot’s high flying memoir, to tales of a wandering Irishman imbued with a hint of Mark Twain; from the sublimely plausible story of a man and his talking cabbage, to a humorous

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Welp, it’s the Sunday a week before the Super Bowl, which means there’s absolutely nothing on television so I’m watching pre-olympic figure skating with the sound off, pretending I’m the one picking the music for every skater.Having that job has been my fantasy ever since I saw someone skating to Great Gig in the Sky thirty years ago and thought to myself, “This is so beautiful, why doesn’t

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I have an unbelievable story, so insane I can only post it here because I am afraid people on Facebook will roll their eyes and think I am either lying or crazy or worse, not really care…I mean, it’s not something major, but it’s a nutty coincidence or ESP moment I had that’s blowing my mind.From around 1982-1992 or so, I worked with a woman named Ellen Hutton I really liked—we were both

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Last night Eric and the Kevin Morby band came over for dinner before they head out on tour and Gary made his famous Daddy burgers, using impossible meat for Eric and grass fed beef for everyone else. Well, not me, I had pasta with cauliflower and feta before they got here because I am vegetarian and don’t eat processed food or not really meat products…give me fresh veg please.Anyway, Eric

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 I know, I know. Where have I been?Well, yesterday we marched in the neighborhood Halloween parade with Superman I mean Jasper and had a great time so there’s that…But otherwise, the world is so horrifying and scary right now I can’t watch the news and I have basically had to stay offline to preserve my sanity.I loathe organized religion but I am a Jew and I am a pacifist so I’m in a truly

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 So I have been spending the last few weeks working on my new book, Leaving Candyland, and have avoided, for the most part, both the news and social media. I made the decision to leave the site formerly known as Twitter and I vowed to never visit Donald’s Truth Social page again because frankly, reading that poison makes me feel…murderous. To put it mildly.Luckily the two of us will never be

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 Well here’s something I never had on my life’s bingo card. Sean Lennon showed up at my daughter’s gig last night and my husband , dog and I got to hang out with him for an hour and chat about John and Yoko and other cool stuff and yeah, mind completely blown.Let me add that Sean told my daughter her performance was EPIC 

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We’re on vacation and now you can see what we’re like and you will know why everyone moved away 😂And here’s my obligatory vacation selfie.Much more to follow 😎

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 Thought for today, and it’s a really good one:“Fear doesn't prevent death. It prevents life.” - Naguib Mahfouz

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THIS MAY BE THE HAPPIEST FUCKING DAY OF MY LIFE.

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