Today's mantra to start out the week. Print and pin to your inspiration board! "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem … [Read more...]
Today’s BEACH GLASS Novel “Wish We Were There” Postcard
June 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
La Paz Waterfall Garden in Costa Rica, the site of a particularly romantic moment from my forthcoming novel, BEACH GLASS. For more info on La Paz (you can actually stay there!), click here. … [Read more...]
Buy the Book: YOGA RESOURCE PRACTICE MANUAL with Darren Rhodes
June 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Single-Sentence Short and Sweet Review: Don't say "OM" without it. More In-Depth Review: I like to think I know about yoga. I've been doing it for 23 years, I've taken teacher training twice, I even understood Shiva Rea's instructions for something she called jaguar-asana. And then I find a book … [Read more...]
Today’s BEACH GLASS Novel “Wish We Were There” Postcard
June 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
As I write my novel BEACH GLASS, coming out Valentine's Day 2014, I need some inspiration for this story of love, surfing, and yoga on the beaches of Costa Rica. Here's today's "wish we were there" … [Read more...]
Buy the Book: MY BEEF WITH MEAT by Rip Esselstyn
June 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I've been vegan before - a sentence that implies I've also not been vegan. I've fallen off the wagon, or vegetable cart in this case, and eaten meat again. (Note: By meat I include fish, as I don't separate that from other animals.) Why, after reading Jonathan Safran Foer's emotionally gripping … [Read more...]
Buy the Book: BEING ME by Lisa Renee Jones
May 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Like I even have to tell you to do that? Anyone who read IF I WERE YOU, the first installment in Lisa Renee Jones's "Inside Out" trilogy, will remember the cliffhanger ending, where our heroine Sara McMillan was trapped in a darkened storage unit, clutching the erotic journals of the missing Rebecca … [Read more...]
On vacation, calories don’t count
May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Food lover though I am, I usually don't eat molten chocolate cake with hazelnut gelato drizzled with more molten chocolate sauce for dessert at lunch. Then again, desserts eaten in Italy, or on any vacation, generally don't count. And it would be rude to refuse, no? … [Read more...]
What's Italian for "wow"? … [Read more...]
Living the Writer’s Life!
May 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This blog will be quiet for the next few weeks because I'm going off to do things to blog about! First, I'm deep in the heart of revisions on my novel, BEACH GLASS, which will be out on Valentine's … [Read more...]
The End: A Beautiful Beginning?
May 1, 2013 By 2 Comments
As I write new chapters of my novel BEACH GLASS, I'm looking at the end a lot. How have my characters changed since the beginning, and how did they get there? This brings to mind something I've heard in writing circles, which is that … [Read more...]
