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Archive for February, 2007

February chocolate winners!!

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Yes, Valentine’s Day is long behind us, but chocolate is good for you all year long, I say.
So I’m happy to announce this month’s chocolate winners:
HEATHER LOUISE!
ANTHONY!
JOYCE!
Congratulations! Your chocolate is on the way!!
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Got to live a bigger life (and pee when you have to)

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

I just finished watching the tape of last night’s show about Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. Did any of you see that?
CRY, CRY, CRY.
What a tearjerker! And so hopeful, and so inspiring, and such living proof that one person–yes, one person with millions and millions of dollars, but let […]

Tuesday Book Club!

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

It gets the exclamation point this time because this week I finished a book. It was getting a little touch and go there for a while.
So this week was The Princess Diaries, Volume VII: Party Princess, which I’m happy to report made me laugh out loud just as much as all the previous […]

An audio book question

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

My friend Carolyn and I were having this discussion yesterday, and she suggested I throw it out to all of you:
Would you rather listen to an audio book read by the author or by an actor? Does your answer vary depending on the author or the type of book? Have you had any […]

Tired but wired and I read Meg Cabot all the way home

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

I did one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself and cashed in some miles to ride first class all the way home from New York today, and is it wrong to almost cry when the flight attendant hands you that hot towel? In that moment it seemed like all my years […]

I’ve been talking for 14 hours straight

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

I don’t even know if I can stay awake long enough to type this, but I’ll see what I can do. I am so exhausted, but thoroughly happy with this fantasy writer day. It was so way better than I even expected.
It’s about 10:30, and I just got back to the room from […]

See you in New York

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Traveling all day. Plan on holing up in the hotel tonight with room service and Lost. I’ll report in as soon as I can about all of tomorrow’s fun events. Stay tuned!
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Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Mine was a re-read this week. Marianne Williamson’s The Gift of Change. Still so many lines I need to absorb and incorporate.
I’ll have plenty of time to read in airports and on planes, so I’m hoping for a two-fer next week.
What did you all read this past week?
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Guess why I bought the Sunday New York Times?

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Because I’m going to New York, baby! This week. And it’s a little ritual of mine to buy the Sunday Times before I go so I can pretend to myself that I’m even halfway in the know.
Not that I’m going to have any extra time AT ALL on this trip to go see […]

Think this guy will buy my book?

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Just when you wonder whether the whole evolution vs. God debate might be cooling down, you get a guy like this.
I’ll be setting aside a few extra copies of Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature for him to give his grandkids. And I might have to do a home visit.
Sheesh.
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