In late 2007, my brother got married and my sister-in-law—who had just discovered how crap I was with anything to do with make-up, jewelry, and you know, looking good—bought me a bag full of amazing products and another bag full of all the jewelry a girl could need. I was headed to Africa at the […]

Last year, I burned out on journalism massively. I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that I was on the floor sobbing a day before a deadline for a major international newspaper having done all the research and interviews because I just could not write. I know now that many career journalists go through this (sometimes […]

Last week, I read an interview with this guy who makes $10k a month selling e-books on Amazon. I have to be honest, it pissed me off. This guy’s not a writer, he’s an Internet marketer, whatever that means, with spelling mistakes in the introduction and 30-page e-books that really should have been articles. You […]

In a post last August, I wrote about a bottle of champagne that had been sitting in my fridge for almost a year. I had been close to a book deal when that bottle was gifted to us, I wrote, and so my husband and I decided we’d open it when we finally made the sale. […]