July 15 It’s easy, in a creative life, to be pulled all over the place, in 759 different directions. It is my biggest flaw, this lack of focus, this damaging belief that I must do it all, ace it all, and somehow have it be effortless. For now, I’ve decided that in addition to the […]

June 1 Time seems to be flying by with no regard to my sanity. I have had no less that six new ideas for books come to me in the last week and, because I know there’s no way I can do them all even in the span of the year, I’ve had to get […]

April 20 Good morning, friends. I was debating whether to start a new nonfiction book or work on my next novel, and ended up staring out of the window and doing neither. Oy. I guess it’s a decision I’ll be “sleeping on.”  April 25 Over the weekend, I met a beautiful white cat called Ziggy […]

Hi friends, When, oh when, will I stop complicating things? I know, I teach, that complicated is the enemy of growth, that trying to do too many things in too many ways, trying to be too many things to too many people, is a recipe for disaster. But do I listen? (No need to answer that.) All […]