"In Missouri, I fantasize: I am free. I can date. I join JDate, but keep my address as D.C. I can 'date' safely? at a distance. I believe in fairy tales."
Mary L. Tabor now has a weekly column writing for the Washington Times Communities
Mary's new column can be found under the heading Not What You Expect at The Washington Times Communities.
Not What You Expect: I ferret out the detail, love the footnote, am never bored and believe it all leads to story. Best advice I ever got? “Only connect …” E.M. Forster
I believe love is the answer. Now what was the question? In this column I'll try to figure that out with you.
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(Re)Making Love: A Sex After Sixty Story is the memoir of the good the bad and the foolish: One woman's journey that proves it's never too late to find love—or oneself.
Video interview below and more about the book
ABOUT THE LATEST BOOK
(Re)Making Love: A Sex After Sixty Story is one of those stories you just couldn't make up. This memoir, the second book by Mary L. Tabor, transports the reader in a most unusual way through a remarkable journey of redemption after a 21-year marriage crashes and burns when her husband "D." announces, so Greta Garbo, "I need to live alone." She craters, then embarks on a relentless dash through the hazards of Internet dating, the loving, the illusions, and through it all a hard look at herself—her foibles, whimsy, desolations, indomitable hope when all was hopeless, and ultimate self-discovery. The origin of the writing as a live blog is apparent in a book that is, as Marly Swick has said, "uniquely beautiful and moving in both its form and its content." This deeply personal memoir is shared wholeheartedly with brutal honesty and incredible intimacy.
ABOUT MARY
Mary L. Tabor was a high school English teacher who bridged the gap to the business world, rising on the corporate ladder while also raising two children. She then made a transition from the business world to the creative world, leaving her corporate job when she was 50 to earn the MFA degree in Creative Writing.
Her book The Woman Who Never Cooked won Mid-List Press's First Series Award. Mary's experience spans the worlds of journalism, business, education and fiction writing.
Her fiction and essays have appeared recently in the anthology Electric Grace, Paycock Press, The Missouri Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Image, the Mid-American Review, River City, Chelsea, Hayden's Ferry Review, American Literary Review and elsewhere.
She was a visiting writer at University of Missouri in Columbia (academic year 2006-07), teaches fiction writing at George Washington University, the Smithsonian's Campus-on-the-Mall, and works with the DC library to reach less-privileged populations on how to begin writing about family, personal history and writing a story—the stuff of life. She's been interviewed on XM Satellite Radio and Pacifica Radio to discuss Joyce, Shakespeare and others and her lifelong career-journey. She is a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow.
