Blair Thornburgh

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Blair Thornburgh is the author of the young adult novels Who's That Girl, named one of Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year, and the forthcoming Ordinary Girls, both from HarperCollins Children's. Follow her on Twitter: @ATallOrder.

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Cover Photo: Photograph by Tron Le/Unsplash
For Sale: Wedding Dress, Worn Once

There’s an irritating coyness to the language around wedding expenses: they’re not expenses at all, they’re “investments.”

May 13, 2019
Cover Photo: “Dash around the lightship,” 1886 / via New York Public Library Digital Collections
How Shanties and Songs of the Sea Helped Me Weather the Storm of Depression

The language of depression can be curiously maritime. It comes in waves; it drowns us; it’s the Mariner’s albatross around our necks.

Aug 06, 2018