• New and Different,  Teaching,  Travel,  Writing

    Keeping Goals and Dreams In Front of You

    I guess I’m getting a little sentimental, because I have a landmark birthday coming up, and it’s surprising me how impacted I am by it, but I’ve been thinking a lot about the future (as well as the past). For a writer, to look to the future means to evaluate where you are now and what you would like to be when you grow up. I guess I’m not grown up yet, because I’m still looking at a very long list of wishes and dreams and hopes and goals. I wonder sometimes what would happen if I finish this list. That’s a scary thought. During the last two years, I…

  • New and Different

    What to do when you lose your editor . . .

    So, this happened. About a month ago, I received a surprising email in the middle of an otherwise lackluster day. The email was a goodbye from my editor. I sat at the laptop and shook my head a little. She left? What the hell. She didn’t say anything a few days before when we’d talked about my new book, You Are the Divine Feminine. Now what? The company sent out an email, reassuring all of us who’d been working with her that everything would be fine, and that we’d be working with someone else for the rest of the project. I was happy to be re-assigned to work with my…

  • New and Different,  Teaching,  Writing

    Writing and Teaching

    Good morning, and welcome! Sometimes we draw back the curtains on the artistic world, and it still seems glamorous, yet vague, to those who aren’t in the business of creating. It definitely can be mystifying, even to those of us who create, to describe that process to people who don’t live in our heads (I live in my head all the time — and I bet any amount of money you’re saying the same thing right now). I talked about my cross-country tour to promote my new novel, The Mourning Parade, last year, but that novel is doing its thing without me now (though I still love to talk about…