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April 6, 2011
How to Write a Book, Part 2: Outline
I started this series of posts yesterday. If you missed Part 1, you'll find it here. I know you probably hate outlining. You were forced to create outlines in seventh grade. They were dull then, and they're still dull. I'll let you in on a little secret, though: You're a grown-up now. You don't have [...]
How to Write a Book, Part 3: Your Ideal Reader
While I hope that everyone will buy my books, I usually have a very specific audience in mind when I write. In fact, I try to write each book for a single person — an "ideal reader." Books, after all, are an intimate form of communication. They're read by one person at a time — [...]
April 3, 2011
Poison Sugar Cupcakes
Look at these cupcakes from Poison Sugar Cupcakes in Michigan! These are the treats to eat when you're reading your Wizards Tarot cards — especially the Mandarin Mandrake! My husband and I are planning a trip to to see some of his relatives in Michigan this summer. He says Poison Sugar isn't too far from [...]
April 2, 2011
Transfiguration's Past Life Spread
From the Wizards Tarot, here's a past-life spread based on the Transfiguration card: Most of us are constantly in the process of remaking ourselves. We want to shed unhealthy habits and unproductive beliefs, and replace them with wholesome thoughts and behaviors. The process of transformation and release, however, always comes with a price. Sometimes it [...]
April 1, 2011
Please Use Other Door
My daughter took two of these signs to school today, to post on both doors to her favorite teacher's classroom. April Fools!
March 31, 2011
The Jewish Zodiac
"Remember the Sunday brunch and keep it holy." Missouri's St. Louis Jewish Light has a cute story about a new development in astrology: the Jewish Zodiac. Where kitsch meets knish Meet Seth Front, a Jewish comedy writer from Los Angeles who parodied the Chinese Zodiac by combining iconic delicatessen imagery with pop culture sensibility. The [...]
March 30, 2011
Update: Ballan's Tarot Blacklist Comes Under Scrutiny
In Australia, organizers of a festival that banned tarot and crystals will come under increased scrutiny from now on. Mayor pledges tolerance test BY NEELIMA CHOAHAN 29 Mar, 2011 01:00 AM COUNCIL-funded festivals will come under more scrutiny following Ballan Autumn Festival's blacklisting of tarot books, crystals and stones. The festival, which ended on Saturday, [...]
March 29, 2011
Fee Statement
I like the whimsy — and the truth — of this post from Enrique Enriquez. On the Tarologist's Fees The cost of consulting the tarot varies accordingly to the nature of the questions asked. Since not all questions carry the same weight, it is only logical to adduce that no standard fee can be applied [...]
March 28, 2011
Psychic Sylvia Browne Suffers Heart Attack
My friend Barbara Moore and I were planning to see Sylvia Browne at the Treasure Island Casino next month. Sadly, it looks as though we might not get the chance. Last week, Browne had a heart attack in Hawaii. The Hawaii Reporter has the story: World Famous Psychic, Author Sylvia Browne Hospitalized in Hawaii Sylvia [...]
March 27, 2011
Fortunetelling Fun with Arthur Edward Waite
I love old books on fortune-telling, and yesterday I stumbled across a good one at Half-Price Books — a reprint of Arthur Edward Waite's Manual of Cartomancy and Occult Divination. Waite, of course, was the designer of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot. A lot of us have tried to read the book he wrote to accompany it, [...]
