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pennyalexlane
- Sep 8
- 1 min
I love connecting to people...
One of the best things about being a published writer and speaking in bookstores is meeting people who thank me for telling my story and...
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pennyalexlane
- Jul 5
- 1 min
About personal freedom and independence...
Thinking about independence and freedom reminds me that some of us have to work really hard to break from the yoke that other people-our...
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pennyalexlane
- Jun 12
- 1 min
Is there a difference between ambition and workaholism?
Interesting article on the difference between "ambition" and "workaholism." Hilary Frey says in her Slate article, "Workaholism is...
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pennyalexlane
- May 29
- 1 min
My book listed next to Sebastian Junger?
OMG! I am really starting to feel like a writer! Sausalito Books by the Bay has my book, Redeemed A Memoir of a Stolen Childhood listed...
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pennyalexlane
- May 17
- 1 min
Memoirs by ordinary people who are quite extraordinary....
Janet Robertson's "It Looked This Way to Me" is one of a growing number of memoirs published by non-celebrities, which is not the same...
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pennyalexlane
- May 15
- 1 min
Memories....
A walk down Memory Lane... this is 45 Henry Street, the house I lived in in Linden, New Jersey, where I lived with my cousins and my...
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pennyalexlane
- May 14
- 1 min
My Mom and me
This is the last photo I have of my mom. That's me, just a few months old, taken a few months before she died. I see a kind face. I am...
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pennyalexlane
- May 13
- 1 min
A worthy Documentary about the cost of success in America
Bravo to my talented and creative friend Erica Filanc Tanamachi who directed a superb documentary which premiered at the CAAMFest, Center...
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pennyalexlane
- May 9
- 1 min
Women and Friendships...
Memoirist Lilly Dancyger explores the powerful role that female friendships played in her chaotic upbringing. She asks a timeless...
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pennyalexlane
- May 6
- 1 min
Who knew there was a National Association to help adult child abuse survivors?
My very first interview discussing my childhood and my new book "Redeemed" about overcoming that childhood was with them. The interview...
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pennyalexlane
- May 4
- 1 min
More Strong Women...
I am SO amazed by Kristin Hannah's new book, The Women, about women serving as nurses in Vietnam, their courage, strength and...
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pennyalexlane
- Apr 25
- 2 min
On Fundamentalism and mental health...
I was heartened by this memoir, Devout, by Anna Gazmarian describing her experience with mental illness in the Evangelical church. It...
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pennyalexlane
- Apr 19
- 1 min
Surviving family trauma can be isolating...
Great article in Psychology today on how surviving family trauma can be so isolating. No one sees the scars. "Children from dysfunctional...
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pennyalexlane
- Apr 18
- 1 min
A Five-Star rating from Readers' Favorite!
Publishing a book as a new writer is an intimidating and vulnerable experience, especially when its memoir. Having a respected,...
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pennyalexlane
- Apr 12
- 1 min
Women overcoming...one way is to read...another is to write.
How is it that almost every woman I know has issues with their mothers? How it is that I always seem attracted to people who have had...
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pennyalexlane
- Jan 9
- 2 min
Is there a connection between childhood trauma and mental illness?
I am fine. Really. I am the over-achiever we all know and either love or hate, the one early for meetings, the one with a clean house, up...
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pennyalexlane
- Oct 2, 2023
- 1 min
Gratitude and Friendship: My Childhood Bonds with Girls in the Bronx
I started school at P.S. 77 in the Bronx in the 1960s, a child of struggling immigrant parents who didn’t speak much English. I was...
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