Ugh. It’s so hard to break your little chocolate hearts. But as I explained last month, I’ve had to make the executive decision to suspend sending out chocolate to people over the summer since all they seem to receive are big boxes of goo. Even one of my April winners had to [...]
Jen Robinson, NYC Teacher, and Cloudscome all tagged me for the 8 Things Meme, where you have to list 8 odd things about yourself. Since I have a problem keeping any of my oddness a secret, you guys already know practically everything to date. So I was relieved to see this modification by [...]
Remember where we all were just a year ago? I was just beginning my official editor-requested edits for Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature, and my best writer pal Barry Lyga was twiddling his thumbs, waiting for his first novel The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl to come out in September, [...]
Good reading week for me. Your Heart’s Desire, a really wonderful book about pursuing–you guessed it. It’s by Sonia Choquette, whose workshop I attended last weekend. WAY outside my comfort zone, since it involved, among other things, looking strangers in the eye for long periods of time. Just isn’t my thing, [...]
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I’m sure there are other people like me, but I don’t personally know any adult who is as into make-believe as I am. I’m not just talking casual pretend, but deep chameleon-like behavior.
I’m so easily influenced by movies and TV. Depending on what I’m watching, I [...]
Just got back from seeing Waitress, starring Keri Russell, and I think it might be my favorite movie of the year so far. Funny, quirky, heart-tugging, and with such sumptuous pies it makes you want to rush home and whip up a dozen of them yourself–especially since Keri makes it look so easy, like [...]
Just in case you didn’t find every one of these links on your own yesterday, please allow me supply them:
The Massage, from Meg Cabot’s blog;
The trailer that makes me SO HAPPY, from Barry Lyga’s blog;
This deeply insightful and important post from HipWriterMama; and
Diana Peterfreund’s post on our discussion from yesterday, about Pleasure and Self-Denial.
Watch, [...]
On Wednesday I wrote about my plan to get more sleep and also my (short-lived) plan to go without coffee for 21 days. Coffee and I are very happy together again, thanks. (Perfect timing, since Alkelda surprised me this week with a gift of her favorite local coffee. Thank you!)
Then other people [...]
If you didn’t see it yet or aren’t prepared to talk about it, then please skip down to the shipper part.
[Lost part:]
Okay, so it’s the future. But not THE future, because Jack’s father is still alive. So it’s A future, right?
And Charlie. Couldn’t he have gotten out, and then both of them [...]
This conference I went to last weekend had all of my favorite mind, body, and spirit people: Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Byron Katie, Sonia Choquette, David Hawkins, Wayne Dyer, and more.
And the ever-fabulous Dr. Christiane Northrup, who constantly rocks my world on health issues.
So one of the points she made to the gathered thousands [...]