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Archive for February, 2007

How we spend our days

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Having one of those mornings. One of those mornings when I think about that quote from writer Annie Dillard: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Read that again if you have to. I know I did the first time I saw it. Because it’s so […]

I’ve been tagged (and so have you)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

. . . by Diana Peterfreund, author of Secret Society Girl (which her publisher recently expanded from a duo to a quattro–congratulations, Diana!). Anyway, back to me. I’m supposed to reveal five little-known facts about myself. Whoo, boy. I’m already guilty of revealing a little too much on this blog at […]

No crickets

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Remember how I said at some book signings it’s so quiet out in the audience you’d swear you heard crickets?
Last night I attended Elizabeth Gilbert’s book signing for Eat, Pray, Love. No crickets. In fact, enough questions and accolades from the audience of about 60-75 people to keep her talking for over an […]

When you love a book, you get in the car

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

How will I be spending my Valentine’s Day? I considered doing the same thing I do every year, going out to dinner with my Valentine at the restaurant up the street (thereby obeying our rule that we only go to restaurants within a three-mile radius) (because we are lazy) (and kind of unimaginative about […]

Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Hey, it happens. Didn’t finish a book this week. Still savoring the one I began last week.
But in keeping with our no-shame policy here at the book club, I will not hang my head.
So, what did y’all read this week? And did you love it/them?
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“He who would create the new”

Monday, February 12th, 2007

I mentioned on the Tuesday Book Club post last week that I’d just finished reading Marianne Williamson’s The Gift of Change. It’s the first one of her books I’ve read, and I’m already rereading it because there were so many ah-hahs in it I couldn’t absorb them all at once.
One of the quotes […]

Substitute yogi

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Today I return, temporarily, to one of my previous jobs: yoga teacher.
Because the timing was right. The owner of the yoga studio was heading to India for several weeks and needed all hands, past and current. And I had just turned in my new novel a few days before she asked me, […]

Answers to a fraction of your Lost questions

Friday, February 9th, 2007

Many thanks to fellow novelist/Lost addict Barry Lyga for performing the valuable human service of giving me this link.
Please read, then let’s discuss.
And just for the record, I have WAY more questions than that.
Technorati Tags: Lost, Lost Theories, Barry Lyga

The Great Decluttering Experiment

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Just so you don’t think I sit around all day every day watching Oprah, let me remind you that I just finished my new novel a few weeks ago, and I am ON VACATION. I will continue to be on vacation for the next two weeks, at which time I will be going to […]

Do you know what tonight is??

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

I’ll do a real post later, but let’s all just pause for a moment and realize that
LOST FINALLY RETURNS TONIGHT!!
We’ll see what happens with Henry’s operation, whether Kate runs even though Sawyer has a gun to his head and Jack is stuck in blackmail surgery, and maybe we’ll check in on Sayid and see […]