My friends recently gave me a baby shower. I have to admit, I’m not a shower person. I can’t say exactly why, but for my wedding shower my eye twitched through the entire thing. For my friend’s baby shower, I…
And, really, why write?
My yoga instructor friend Guy Gabriel posted a link to this article by Brianna Ecklid recently on Facebook. I thought it was appropriate to repost in light of the previous blog here discussing why writers write. Ecklid contends that writing saved…
My parking, yesterday
Lately I’ve found it helpful to remind myself that there ARE some perks to being really, really pregnant.
From selling books to not baking cookies
The last post was about selling books so I think it’s okay this time to discuss cookie baking. Actually, this is about not baking cookies. Last month I visited Flagstaff, a cool little town even though it’s in Arizona (haha),…
How do authors sell books? Why write?
I just had a discussion with a friend who is a manager in the music industry and is lately lamenting how her profession has drastically changed. Gone are the big bucks, in many ways, she says. Moreover, she recently had…
And about flip flops…
In my last riveting blog post, I mentioned my penchant for flip flops. And because we’re heading into fall so nobody else will be talking of flip flops now AND because I’m in Southern Cal and thus am a flip…
Want to Vivify your life?
There’s a really cool magazine out there called VIV. I don’t think a ton of people know about it yet, but it’s cool because I suppose it’s the next step in magazines. VIV is totally digital (meaning you download it…
Adult ADHD
I’ve recently been working on a story about adult ADHD. Now, there are certainly plenty of drawbacks to being a freelance writer (like, perhaps not having a regular paycheck!), but the one big perk is that you get to learn…
The new crisis: creativity
I posted this What I’m Reading Now recently on Exurbmagazine.com. It’s all about Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman’s Newsweek article on creativity in America. Their article is a little scary…apparently creativity in the U.S. has dropped alarmingly while elsewhere it’s…
Inspiration in the heat
I flew into Phoenix this weekend. My ultimate destination was Flagstaff, where I am now, but I first stopped by the Frank Lloyd Wright house Taliesin West in Scottsdale. As with any freelancer, I rarely do a trip that isn’t…