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Patricia P. Donovan @PatPDonovan

Journalist now making up stuff. Author, Sandy-inspired AT WAVE'S END (8/17); DELIVER HER. Spinner of domestic suspense. Runner, yogi, AARP invite avoider.

Joined September 2012
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Patricia P. Donovan@PatPDonovan
16 Aug 2017
Huffpost: Patricia Perry Donovan on Hurricane Sandy, NaNoWriMo & the Dreaded Sophomore Jinx @TheBookDoctors ow.ly/wrIe30esP44
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♥️🍷🧀A Slice of France, the Baguette Is Granted World Heritage Status nytimes.com/2022/11/30/world…

A Slice of France, the Baguette Is Granted World Heritage Status (Published 2022)

More than six billion baguettes are sold every year in France. But the bread is under threat, with bakeries vanishing in rural areas.

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Bloomberg Law
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26 Oct 2022
Twenty-nine states plus the District of Columbia require employers to ensure workers have time off to vote on Election Day, and all but seven of those require that it be paid. blawgo.com/aBiKax8

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CBS Sunday Morning 🌞
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1 May 2022
Maury Povich and Connie Chung on their lives on- and off-camera cbsn.ws/3vuqr71

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Ricky Gervais
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11 Mar 2022
Have a beautiful weekend ❤️

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World Central Kitchen
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8 Mar 2022
WCK’s Anna checking in from Ukraine 🇺🇦 Our team got word that there were 1,500 people in line waiting to cross into Poland, so we came over with a truck full of hot soup! As the situation continues to shift, we’ll keep adapting to get meals to families in need. #ChefsForUkraine
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Ricky Gervais
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12 Jan 2022
I love how #AfterLife fans talk about their own grief and support each other with lovely tweets of encouragement and hope. What a wonderful club to be a part of ❤️
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via ⁦@nytimes⁩ nytimes.com/2021/12/24/movie…

Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now (Published 2021)

The writer, working with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, saw Hollywood as a way to make cash to support her art. It did and didn’t work out.

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Catherine Rampell
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24 Dec 2021
Fabulous interview with @Lin_Manuel on “tick, tick…BOOM!”, failure, and ambition. bigissue.com/culture/lin-man…
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The New York Times
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29 Sep 2021
From the classroom to writing one of the fall's most anticipated books, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is 50 and just getting started. nyti.ms/2Yc8pIJ

It’s Never Too Late to Publish a Debut Book and Score a Netflix Deal (Published 2021)

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, at 50, is not the average age of a debut author. But the public school teacher describes herself as a “literary debutante” with the October publication of “My Monticello.”

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New York Magazine
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27 Sep 2021
For Simone Biles, walking away was an act of self-reclamation. She told the story of her Tokyo Games to @CAMONGHNE nym.ag/3m74k0F
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Daniel Miller@DanielNMiller
21 Sep 2021
I was floored by Erik Sydow's poignant obituary for his sister Karen. I shared it here and thousands were moved too. I wondered if he knew. So I called him. He was stunned by the overwhelming support. But more than anything, he wanted to tell me about her: latimes.com/california/story…

How a brother's obituary for his 'Special Sister' became a poignant internet phenomenon

Erik Sydow's tribute for his sister, Karen Sydow, who had cerebral palsy, struck a chord online — and that has left Sydow, who remembers his sister as a "warmhearted little girl," deeply moved.

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Daniel Miller@DanielNMiller
18 Sep 2021
Remarkable obituary in today’s paper.
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Kellen Browning@Kellen_Browning
8 Sep 2021
The pandemic has created a quirk in the workforce: a growing group of people never met their coworkers in-person before leaving their jobs. That has made it easier to quit, showing how emotional attachments to jobs may be fraying. W/ @eringriffith: nytimes.com/2021/09/08/busin…

If You Never Met Your Co-Workers in Person, Did You Even Work There? (Published 2021)

As the pandemic drags on, more people are beginning and leaving new jobs without once seeing their colleagues face-to-face, leading to an easy-come, easy-go attitude toward workplaces.

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via @NYTOpinion I couldn’t agree more. Never has the need for affordable, reliable home care been more dire — and for equitable wages for home health workers. nytimes.com/2021/09/08/opini…

Opinion | Home Care Keeps Me Alive. It Should Be Fully Funded. (Published 2021)

Most Americans want to stay at home when they’re sick or aging. The U.S. should make it possible.

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VICE News
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19 Aug 2021
Lydia Rodriguez, a mother of four, was unvaccinated and died of COVID-19. Before she went on a ventilator, she had a final request. "Please make sure my children get vaccinated," she said, according to family. trib.al/pvTWfvW

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Block parties, food pantries, the workplace - Novel ways to reach the unvaccinated. No, the Unvaccinated Aren’t All Just Being Difficult nytimes.com/2021/08/06/opini…

Opinion | No, the Unvaccinated Aren’t All Just Being Difficult (Published 2021)

“Sometimes you have to make it too convenient so that people can’t say no.”

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How do you make yourself write every day? #AmitavaKumar on The Oldest Productivity Trick Around #amwriting #writing life nytimes.com/2021/05/04/magaz…

The Oldest Productivity Trick Around (Published 2021)

Too often I spent my days wanting to write and not writing. The simple power of the check mark helped me get back on track.

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G. Graham Best II@iAmGrayHam
9 May 2021
“The easiest way to help a #HealthCareWorker in the #pandemic is get vaccinated. It’ll make their job much easier.”—@Letterman #VaxLive
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