I think I was looking at Apple's new magazine offering all wrong. It may not be for regular magazine readers. (more on the dimsumthinking blog)

In honor of what would have been my youngest daughter's 20th birthday, I have published a paperback edition and reformatted the ebook of the first few months of "Dear Elena", the blog that I kept after her death. Order the paperback from Amazon. The ebook is available on iBooks, Gumroad, and on Amazon's Kindle store.

Often when I write, I go back and delete a sentence here or there. I needed to write those parts - but you don't need to read them. (more on the dimsumthinking blog)