This stone clearly has no momentum. I’m in LA, visiting a friend. I’m distracted by good food to eat, events to attend (yesterday a book signing for a fabulous cookbook and a Native American Thanksgiving ritual). And yet I’m writing every morning. I’m a rolling stone, merrily cavorting down the long hill of novel […]
I'm heading to LA tomorrow. Yep. Swimming pools. Movie stars. Just like the Clampetts. Except I'll be working the entire time, attending a two-day business intensive that is part of the Suzanne Evans 10K Coaching Club. Together with 98 other women, I'll be designing a plan for the next stage of my business. Frankly, I'm […]
LA in November is warm and sunny, though everyone here insists is it freezing cold. As I write this in Pasadena, it is 75 degrees, which, let me emphasize, is NOT COLD, though it was chilly enough this morning to have to cover up with a blanket during the daily writing session on the porch. […]
Sitting in the garden at the Pasadena coffee shop called Zephyr, I whiled away a few good hours talking with my screenwriting friend Brian. We discussed the movie biz and the publishing world while a gentle breeze rustled the ivy covering the patio walls and handsome Armenians smoked hookahs at a table nearby. Russian literature […]
I just found mine. It wasn't really lost, in the sense that it was something I desperately missed. It was more like it was buried under the multitude of interests and ideas that crowd my sometimes-mushy brain (too much going on in there!) It wasn't even something that I felt I needed. The experts, however, […]
Having left LA last Friday and flown up the coast, I am adjusting to the relative cold up here (oh who am I kidding, forget the relative part it is flippin' freezing, 50 degrees colder than it was when I left California). But this morning was one of those foggy autumn mornings that I love, […]
where it is illegal to look different from anyone else. It is a requirement here that you be thin, tan, have long hair, wear sunglasses and pout, AND be young. Thus if you are not young it is required that you go get plastic surgery really, really fast. And then you look like you are […]
6:30. Rise, stumble to the coffeepot, take coffee with me to the journal, sit and write for an hour. Best part of the day. 7:30. Check email; try not to get too engrossed in letters from friends or the latest celebrity gossip news. 8:00. Walk with my friend Sharon. We’ve been walking together, three times […]
I flew down to LA on Friday and at the moment I'm staying in Pasadena. It is probably in the mid to high 90s at the moment, but yesterday and Friday, the temps were around 106-107. Gee-zus. This is way too hot for an Oregon native like me, especially given that we've not had much […]
