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Author, Berkshire culture vulture, world traveler, voracious reader, on a spiritual Jewish journey, advocate for women’s rights

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When Women Start Over, Everything Changes | BookTrib. This month in BookTrib, we are celebrating women’s fiction books featuring characters who take brave leaps of faith to start over and forge new paths in their lives.

Scroll down to see my novel, Little Bird, on this list from the Womens Fiction Association, “When Women Start Over, Everything Changes.”

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29.01.2026 14:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Inspired By, Not About - Women Writers, Women's Books By Barbara Viniar “…She opened the bag of chocolate kisses her mother had insisted on buying her…and somehow life did feel a little easier.”   That must be where I get it from, I thought as I wrote ye...

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27.10.2025 17:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Saturday’s world premiere of the piano concerto John Williams wrote for Emanuel Ax.

30.07.2025 03:06 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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It was a shipboard romance destined to fail. Or was it? Little Bird releases August 15. Pre-order now at Amazon, Bookshop and Sibylline press.
#littlebirdnovel #womensfiction #immigrationstories #historicalfiction #Jewishfiction #WFWA #sibyllinepress #sibyllinedigitalfirst

23.07.2025 19:18 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Barbaraviniar | Substack When I retired I moved to the Berkshires for the music, dance, theater and museums. I advocated for women's rights, read voraciously, and took lifelong learning courses. Then, a chance discovery about...

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18.07.2025 19:04 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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How lucky I am to have seen the exhilarating world premiere of Sarasota Ballet’s “Lorenz Butterfly.” #sarasotaballet #jacobspillowdancefestival

18.07.2025 19:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sunday afternoon at Tanglewood. How can I help you? #BSO #Tanglewood #BSAV

13.07.2025 17:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Barbara’s Substack | Barbara Viniar | Substack My personal Substack. Click to read Barbara’s Substack, by Barbara Viniar, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.

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07.07.2025 22:56 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Fannie had to leave her beloved Mama behind how would she manage without her? Little Bird: A Novel available this August #womensfiction #booksky #historicalfiction #Jewishfiction #sibyllinepress
@littlebirdnovel.com

10.06.2025 14:50 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Love women’s stories and women writers! #wfwa #womensficrion #sibyllinepress @littlebirdnovel.com

08.06.2025 13:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Walking along the lake, the detritus of last year’s season is strewn on the beach. Can’t wait to hear children’s laughter again.

24.05.2025 15:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Rewarding myself with fabulous novels.

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Great read!

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Sonia Pilcer’s author talk was full of surprises. She described a rewarding personal relationship with AI that has reawakened her creativity and enabled her to write again.

22.05.2025 20:44 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s not just the coffee, but the message that’s getting me started this morning.

21.05.2025 14:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The Moynihan Train Hall is digital- I don’t miss the “little flippy things” at Penn Station

09.05.2025 21:40 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“That Librarian.”
My book club discussed That Librarian by Amanda Jones this week. We talked about the fact that any librarian could be attacked for political, not professional reasons. We didn’t know Dr. Carla Hayden was next.

09.05.2025 21:36 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Or you could think of it as a sport

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Whipped off their branches
Scattered by a passing storm
Tears mix with raindrops

07.05.2025 02:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Star Awards

Proud to be a judge for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association 2025 Star Awards.
Great novels, hard to rate them.
#WFWA #STARAWARDS

02.05.2025 17:29 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The first sign of green
And he’s ready to forage
Waiting greedily

01.05.2025 13:41 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Not quite time to plant
The threat of frost still lingers
I’ve been fooled before

30.04.2025 20:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The wait seems endless
But every sunny day
Brings blossoms closer

28.04.2025 13:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Artists imagine
Transform the ordinary
Transcend the mundane

27.04.2025 12:50 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tanka

Dare I hope flowers
Will blossom again this year
As expected, or
Will they withhold their beauty
From an undeserving world

26.04.2025 17:41 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Women sit, hours on end
Separating stems from leaves
It’s always women.

25.04.2025 12:13 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Notice the windows
Misaligned to hide the truth
Of hidden worship

24.04.2025 12:38 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tanka

Bicycle, flowers,
Tiled sidewalk, photo op
On a city street.
Just coincidence, or staged
To delight the passersby?

23.04.2025 12:57 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Other crops may fail
Taro survives, sustaining
The hungry masses

22.04.2025 12:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A treasure flower
To remind us hope triumphs
On the coldest day

20.04.2025 12:23 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0