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  • Q&A: Jill McCorkle on dolls, dollhouses, tiny objects and what they have to do with writing and life
  • How My French Work Exchange Journey Led to a New Life and Love
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2020: The Ups and Downs, a New Year’s Eve Invitation, and Wedding Photos!

December 17, 2020 by Jo Maeder 2 Comments

A Year Like No Other How many times in 2020 did you say: “What a year!” I hope you didn’t lose a loved one to Covid-19 or meet with financial ruin. Surely, someone reading this has and you have my deepest sympathies. Please keep reading. I have something to invite you to at the end that might be […]

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Filed Under: Birds, Grief, Love, Pandemic, Travel Tagged With: Love, pandemic, Planner5D, reset, Travel, what matters

Q&A: Jill McCorkle on dolls, dollhouses, tiny objects and what they have to do with writing and life

September 9, 2020 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

    “I have always loved dolls. And yes, there are still within the love, those that have creeped me out!” – Jill McCorkle Jill McCorkle is a bestselling, award-winning author of unforgettable novels and short stories. She was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard, where she also chaired the department of creative writing. […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A, Blog, Dolls, Entertainment, Family, Love, Pop Culture Tagged With: Baby Thumbelina, Charlie McCarthy, Danny O'Day, dollhouses, Dolls, Dr. Ruth, Japanese wig doll, Jill McCorkle, Liddle Kiddles, Nancy Anne Storybook. Wednesday's Child Doll, Thoreau dollhouse

Life Works in Mysterious Ways: How losing my last sibling gave me more than just a new perspective

May 9, 2018 by Jo Maeder 3 Comments

I once wrote an essay for AOL about getting through Mother’s Day when Mom is no longer here (the essay is no longer here as well—so much for everything living forever online). Now I’m faced with Mother’s Day without my brother, Art. Every day without him has been hard, but we always shared memories of “Mama […]

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Filed Under: Books by Jo, Fundraising, Grief, Love, Medical

What is the #1 way to increase happiness?

November 20, 2017 by Jo Maeder 4 Comments

Life is not a bowl of cherries for anyone. We must take the bitter with the sweet, we’re told. But some people seem to have an innate melancholy they can never shake. Studies now show that we stay at the same level of happiness our entire life. There’s only one thing that’s been proven to […]

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Filed Under: Essay, Family, Grief, Love, Medical, Relationships Tagged With: forgiveness, gratitude, happiness, hoarding, Thanksgiving Day

Beating the Odds: Finding Love at Any Age

November 6, 2016 by Jo Maeder 4 Comments

It was mid-January, 2014, still soon enough in the new year for the air to be charged with renewal and resolutions. My friend Rita had been in a long-term relationship with a wonderful man everyone adored. She adored him, too. But it had become more of a warm friendship than a romance. Her New Year’s […]

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Filed Under: Essay, Love, Relationships Tagged With: Love, single in mid-life, Unexpected Love

Mother’s Day without Mama

May 7, 2016 by Jo Maeder 4 Comments

This Mother’s Day, 2016, marks the eleventh one without Mama Jo. It’s always been tinged with sadness since her passing, but this one will be particularly hard. I recently completed reading and editing the audiobook of When I Married My Mother. I read it once. Didn’t like the way I did my mother’s parts. Re-read them […]

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Filed Under: Books by Jo, Dolls, Essay, Family, Grief, Love Tagged With: Gain, Loss, Mother's Day

Buried words of wisdom

March 23, 2015 by Jo Maeder 6 Comments

  I’m going through two trunks of stuff related to a documentary I once tried to make about my aunt, Julie Arden, and her companion Charlotte Brooks. I’m determined to whittle it down to one big box. It should be easy. Just don’t look too closely. Keep the essentials. Toss, toss, toss. I find scraps […]

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Filed Under: Essay, Grief, Love, Relationships

Q&A: Teresa Engebretsen, the Sabbatical Chef, on How to Speak French and Indulge Your Inner Francophile

April 27, 2014 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

Teresa Engebretsen has been teaching French to middle school students at Durham Academy in Durham, NC, for over 30 years. Often she takes her students on field trips to France. Her blog The Sabbatical Chef began when she took a sabbatical from teaching in 2008, lived in Arles, and worked with a French chef. It’s […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A, Cooking/recipes, Entertaining, Love, Travel Tagged With: Francophile, French cuisine, Learning French or any language, Opposites Attack, Travel

MY DANCE WITH ONLINE DATING

February 9, 2014 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

My P.O.V. on online dating after trying it for a year. Published in the Northwest Observer 1/17/2014. UPDATE 4/14/2014: The very last man I met online has become the best guy friend ever. No regrets! Click on the image twice then enter Ctrl+ to make it larger, Ctrl- to make it smaller.

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Filed Under: Essay, Love, Pop Culture, Relationships Tagged With: dating in the Triad, Online dating, single in mid-life

HOLIDAY REMINISCENCES AND REGRETS

December 6, 2011 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

An adapted excerpt from the chapter “Watching a Photograph Slowly Fade” from When I Married My Mother “Are we putting up a Christmas tree this year?” Mama Jo asked when our third Thanksgiving as roommates rolled around. I groaned and was sorry I did. The first year we lived together, after uncovering the ornaments of […]

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Filed Under: Books by Jo, Family, Love Tagged With: Christmas, Festival of Lights, Mama Jo, When I Married My Mother

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