Desperate times.
I live in a very casual town, where dressing up means switching from your canvas to your leather Teva’s.
So it shouldn’t be a surprise that my husband’s and my conversation on our walk this morning was which of our Merrell’s looked most presentable for our trip to New York.
Which drives my more fashion-conscious [...]
Yes, yes, yes!!!
I just got home and there was a message from one of the people on my List of 30, saying he’d be happy to see me when I’m in New York next week.
Hurray!!
If you haven’t written down your own List of 30 yet, you’re missing out. Drop everything and DO IT.
Yes, I [...]
From this week’s Time magazine, Dr. Andrew Weil:
“We do not understand food cravings and where they come from. I suspect there is a great deal of social and cultural conditioning involved. For example, it is popular to argue that chocolate is addictive and point out that women often crave it uncontrollably, especially after [...]
Diana Peterfreund brought up something in a comment today that irritates me so much, I have to deal with it in a separate post.
Her comment was about Ah, the smell of a book burning, which dealt with a school administrator’s attempt to ban certain books in a high school. I pointed out that the [...]
Many thanks to my friend Annette (jeez, I’ve mentioned her name on here about eight times in the last few days–she should go get her own blog) for alerting me to this critical new scientific discovery.
Which makes it all the more important that you do this.
Technorati Tags: Chocolate, Science, Free Chocolate
A few years ago I read an interview with Tina Fey (Saturday Night Live) in which she talked about all the good things that have come to her as a result of saying yes. Here’s the interview so you can enjoy the whole thing.
Her motto? “The fun is always on the other side [...]
It’s Sunday, and I don’t technically work on Sundays, so here’s some entertainment from authors who are working.
Meg Cabot’s advice for authors on book tours.
Bernard’s approach to rejection letters.
Enjoy.
Technorati Tags: Writing, Publishing, Meg Cabot, Bernard’s Letter
I learned this trick from New York Times best-selling women’s fiction author Debbie Macomber a few years ago. And since then–magic.
She, too, is a believer in the power of Life Lists, although hers take a different form than mine. Long ago Debbie wrote down her five biggest, dream-come-true goals as a writer. [...]
Fresh month, long days, plenty of time to do all the things you need to/want to do. Here’s a few to get you started:
1. Enter my monthly chocolate drawing. NOW. I cannot adequately describe to you how happy you’ll be when the delivery person pulls up to your door and hands [...]