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Syndicated Advice Columnist, ‘Ask Amy’ Launches Her New Website and Invites You to Join Her

Do you know Amy Dickinson, the national syndicated advice columnist and best selling author of The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter and the Town that Raised Them? She likely writes a column in your local paper. This is what WashingtonPost.com has to say about Amy: “She comes across very much as you’d expect an advice columnist to: smart, humorous, commonsensical, not prone to deep self-analysis and – despite having lived in London and Chicago and worked in New York as a television producer – a passionate proponent … Continue reading

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Learn About Virtual Book Tours

We’ve been keeping our Virtual Book Tours a secret for too long. Over the past year and a half, here at NourishingRelationships.blogspot.com, we’ve featured more than 15 authors and their recently published books. You may be wondering why this sort of event has come to be known as a Virtual Book Tour. Because it’s like the old book signings, but you don’t have to take off your bunny slippers. Do you see “Archives,” to the left of this post? Scroll down to the month you want and click, and then … Continue reading

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Amy Dickinson Responds to NourishingRelationships’ Readers

Plenty of nourishing relationships’ readers and sandwiched boomers tuned in yesterday to take part in our interview with Amy Dickinson. We had a spirited discussion with Amy, author of The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter and the Town that Raised Them. Our thanks to Amy for being so generous with her time. You can still read all of the responses, in full, through yesterday’s “comments” link at the bottom of the post. Here’s a sampling. Several Readers had concerns relating to their teenagers: “I too have a … Continue reading

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"Ask Amy" Talks with Sandwiched Boomers

Today we are delighted to welcome advice columnist Amy Dickinson to our blog for sandwiched boomers. Amy is the author of “The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter and the Town that Raised Them.” In her book, according to washingtonpost.com, Amy “comes across very much as you’d expect an advice columnist to: smart, humorous, common-sensical, not prone to deep self-analysis and – despite having lived in London and Chicago and worked in New York as a television producer – a passionate proponent of small-town American values.” Now see … Continue reading

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