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I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

Last year I went to Iceland to serve as one of the featured authors for the Iceland Breiders

Retreat.

A terrific program where one of my fellow authors was the novelist and memoirist Aumannada

Forna.

When I know I'm going to meet a writer, I like to read something that they've written.

So before I head to Iceland, I read her outstanding collection of essays, The Window Seat, Notes

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