Living Out Loud [Paperback]

"A panopticon of life in this decade, sure to be valuable to future social historians She touches on life, love, home, family, work, men, women, children and issues large and small."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The voice is Anna Quindlen's. But we know the hopes, dreams, fears, and wonder expressed in all her columns, for most of us share them. With her NEW YORK TIMES-based column, "LIFE IN THE 30s," Anna Quindlen valued to national attention, and this wonderful collection shows why.
As she proved in OBJECT LESSONS and THINKIN OUT LOUD, Anna Quindlen's views always fascinate.Anna Quindlenis a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of eight novels:Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One,Still Life with Bread Crumbs,andMiller’s Valley. Her memoirLots of Candles,Plenty of Cake,published in 2012, was a number oneNew York Timesbestseller. Her bookA Short Guide to a Happy Lifehas sold more than a million copies. While a columnist atThe New York Timesshe won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections,Living Out LoudandThinking Out Loud. HerNewsweekcolumns were collected inLoud and Clear.THE LIGHTNING BUGS ARE BACK
 
 
 
The lightning bugs are back. They are small right now, babies really, flying low to the ground as the lawn dissolves from green to black in the dusk. There are constellations of them outside the window: on, off, on, off. At first the little boy cannot see them; then, suddenly, he does. “Mommy, it’s magic,” he says.
 
This is why I had children: because of the lightning bugs. Several years ago I was reading a survey in a women’s magazine and I tried to answer the questions: Did you decide to have children: A. because of family pressure; B. because iló,