About this Burbia Blogger
- added on 02/04/2008
Valerie Block
Valerie Block is the author of the novels Don't Make A Scene (Ballantine, 2007), None of Your Business (Ballantine, 2003) and Was It Something I Said? (SoHo Press, 1998). She lives in New Jersey with her husband, the writer Alexis Romay.
Blogs by Valerie Block
Nothing is more important to our collective sense of wellbeing than the prompt and efficient removal of waste from our environment. Therefore, the Township Department of Community Services has released new guidelines concerning recycling and solid waste, effective immediately. Recylcing saves tax dollars, reduces waste and conserves ...read more.
Not long ago, I was run down by a stroller. It wasn't one of the heavy, double-barreled varieties, or one of the off-road jogging tricycles you see around town. It wasn't one of the deep carriages for triplets-on-the-go, or a Swedish four-wheel-drive with matching hubcaps and handles ...read more.
"How many children do you have?" asked the nanny who takes care of some kids on our block, right after introducing herself to my husband and me one bright summer afternoon, the day we came to see our new house. "We don't have children," I
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"You must do the thing you think you cannot do," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote. On the other hand, as Blanche Wiesen Cooke pointed out in the first volume of her excellent biography, Eleanor Roosevelt ran households with 17 servants. Something tells me that when it came time to picking up dead rodents by the tail ...read more.
They come in twos and threes, dressed as if going to church in the south in the 1950s. They are always African American. They frequently have a child in tow, a child who never shouts or cries or goofs off, even though he or she doesn't have ...read more.
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