I am not a woman of few words, although Twitter has helped me in learning how to write in 140 characters or less. But today this will be brief. After countless hours, days, months and yes, years, of writing, dreaming, thinking, editing, trying it the traditional way, throwing that aside and editing again, this novel is out […]

Ask me how I spent my Tuesday. Waiting. I had a few phone meetings. I tried to get past my writer’s block on another article I’m writing. I had other projects to work on, book marketing prep to tackle. But mostly I spent Tuesday waiting for the UPS guy. The one who had on his […]

Yesterday morning it was summer. Hot, humid, air-conditioning weather. By late afternoon, it was fall. Temperatures dropped severely on the island I call Manhattan and a jacket was needed. I thought I was ready for fall until I found myself shivering on a street corner last night while thinking gloves and a scarf might have been […]

I have this love/hate relationship with September. I always have. At my core I am a summer girl. Yes, I love autumn leaves and the first sign of a forsythia blooming in the spring.  A day spent skiing the Rockies after a fresh fallen snow will never fail to make me smile. But the summer […]

People pay me to push their buttons. That’s why people hire a coach. So that someone else will make them do what they stop themselves from doing. Reaching higher. Stretching farther. Shaking things up. Refusing to settle for anything less than what they deserve. Pointing out what they already know but weren’t willing to look […]