I took up yoga recently. This, to most people who know me, was jaw-droppingly shocking. Mostly because I’m a person who jumps, runs, and kicks, not someone who sits and chants Om. Hiking? Sure. Mountain climbing? Bring it on! Shoulder stands? I don’t think so. But last year, my family had a series of health […]

Like most of you, I am an ideas person. What this means, essentially, is that I have notebooks upon notebooks in my drawers and files upon files on my computer that are filled with ideas for books, characters, articles, essays, even queries. Some of them are just one-sentence ideas, some of them are thorough outlines […]

When I went full-time again in April, I spent the first two weeks sending out queries to publications that had, so far, seemed out of my league. I pitched several magazines that pay $2 a word or more, I even queried an editor who assigns at $3 a word and up. Two weeks later, I […]

I am a monogamous woman. I have one husband who I love very much. I make puppy dog eyes when he comes home from work each evening, his annoyance at this not withstanding. Professionally, however, I’m promiscuous. So very promiscuous. I’m a journalist who has covered politics, business, health, and women’s issues, traveled through four […]