Last night I hosted an engagement party for my friend Phineas*, a gifted and award-winning photographer who does these INSANE 90-day treks through the north and south poles to take pictures of the melting glaciers.  He's worldly and attractive with a killer British accent, and has the kind of romantic past that involves German models.  There's a ( Read more... )

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A Facebook friend drew my attention to this lovely project on Kickstarter.com, by two young female artists:

Dreamscape Memory Cave

I love the ideas they're working with, so I pledged a few dollars and brought them closer to their $2000.00 goal.  Check it out.  Help them if you can. They might make you a chandelier.

(I am becoming fascinated with ( Read more... )

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My friend Genevieve came over the other night.  "I need your moral support with something," she said in a note sent through Facebook. "Not a man thing."

I was very curious.

I love to be in the company of very smart, worldly, accomplished older women.  When you're coming up on 40 (I am 38 and a half), a birthday that someone once described as "the ( Read more... )

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Now seems a good time to once again change the name of this blog. Little did I know, when I started it five or six years ago, the kind of trouble that it might get me into. C'est la vie. Je ne regrette rien.

I've thought about closing it down and/or melding it into Tribal Writer, but no.   If a blog can be a kind of quest -- for knowledge, ( Read more... )

There's a story in the New York Post saying that Elon and I settled for a "post-nup pay-out" of $750,000.  I have no idea where they got this number but it's not true. Elon and I came to terms a while ago because an ending seemed the sensible thing (the appeals court agreed to hear the case, but at some point the madness must stop, and this could ( Read more... )

cross-posted from Tribal Writer

apologies for my absence. will be posting again regularly very soon.

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A few weeks ago, a woman named Marie Forleo surprised about eighteen other women and me with a boudoir photo session. We were all solo entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs gathered for a three day retreat in Santa Monica. You wouldn’t think ( Read more... )

cross-posted from Tribal Writer

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Most aspiring fiction writers don’t read enough fiction, which is like a fighter going into the ring with one hand tied behind her back. The game is over before it started. I’ve written about this before - Reading is the Inhale, Writing is the Exhale: Developing Writer’s Intuition - and posted about it in ( Read more... )

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Quick note: I am currently in Burundi with Dude and Vday organization (the "global movement to end violence against girls and women"). We are about to drive through Rwanda to Congo, to witness the opening ceremonies of City of Joy, a sustainable community for girls and women ( Read more... )

cross-posted from Tribal Writer

1. Live for the process (that's how you lose yourself & find your best work ( Read more... )