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February 11, 2014
Wordless Wednesday: Give Up Something to Give to Your Writing
Hear my interview with Rachel in the OC and Particia Sands via Best Selling Reads Radio on BlogTalkRadio. Advice on how to establish an author brand, write and release 8 eBooks in a year, without becoming a robot. Related articles Wordless Wednesday: The Four Month MakeOver Wordless Wednesday: My 2014 Mantra (A Lesson about Stupid) […]
February 9, 2014
They Think They Can Do Better — Well So Can You
My single friends look at me with longing; they think as a mother of two, husband in residence, that my greatest life questions are resolved. “Gal-pal” is such a casual label for these women whose worth is above gold. We have conversations I can only dream of with my friends who are also mothers. Unfettered […]
February 6, 2014
Friday Fiction: Good Intentions by Aya Walksfar
Of all the ways to die! Such an ordinary death. No blazing gun in a barroom brawl; no fast car losing the hairpin curve. Surely Rene couldn’t die such a mundane death. Rene’s short-cropped, bleached blonde hair looked like bits of wheat straw against the crisp whiteness of the pillow. I could make out […]
February 2, 2014
We Need to Talk About Death
May seem like a morbid headline, especially with many fans of Philip Seymour Hoffman reeling from the news of his untimely passing. The truth is, in our technologically advanced “modern” society, we don’t talk about death enough. Or the facts. We are finite beings whose lives have a beginning and an end. None of us […]
January 28, 2014
Wordless Wednesday: Support the Book of Esther in dance
The composing/choreographing team of Ariel Grossman and David Homan, are also husband and wife. I love to support creatives and young creatives like these soon-to-be parents are inspiring. Their plans to expand on an original production of Vashti, which successfully premiered to 450+ people at Ailey March 2013 with another woman centered, Biblical story. Esther […]
January 27, 2014
27 Days Later (Not a Virus Incubator but a New Habit Generator)
New Year’s resolutions have a bad, bad rap. So much so that people now recommend yearly themes or words instead of those resolves that are broken. Call me stubborn or cyclical but I love the blank slate that comes with every January. For 2014 I chose vegetarianism. Popular psychology will tell you that it […]
January 21, 2014
Wordless Wednesday: My 2014 Mantra (A Lesson about Stupid)
Regardless of what you think of the Duck Dynasty (niche marketing at its best), they do have a way with words. When my inner radiator steams up this year, I repeat this phrase. Not to label what’s happening, but to remind myself that sometimes, what’s wrong was so long before I arrived on the scene. […]
January 19, 2014
On Being Brown in MLK Jr’s America
The third Monday in January may mean a ski holiday for those grew up in the United States in the 80′s. For 28 years, this has been the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the long weekend commemorating his birth, and his fight, as a private citizen, for civil rights for great grandchildren of African descendents […]
January 15, 2014
Wordless Wednesday: Love Comes Later Book Events in Qatar
I was lucky enough to combine work/leisure over the winter holidays, visiting with family and meeting readers in the United States. Today Love Comes Later becomes widely available in paperback to readers in Qatar. Which of my books would you like to see in paperback next? I’m debating between From Dunes to Dior and The […]
January 13, 2014
On Passing Moral Judgment
When I moved to Qatar in 2005 many thought I was headed to Turkey. I’m not sure why since they don’t even share one letter in common. Perhaps because Turkey was the most exotic place my friends in the United States had heard of. In the months after I relocated, my friends would email and […]
