The self-improvement speaker referred to Sedona as a mystical place with red dirt, healing energy, and vortexes. The speaker raved that the land helped him achieve inner alignment and gave him the tools to develop his new healing modality. I had never heard of Sedona,...
The day before the worst day of my life I was at Catalina Island, California. Catalina Island is a small island off of Long Beach, California. The only town on it is called Avalon, which is only three square miles in area, inhabiting lots of golf cars and smart cars....
I have this novel I have worked on for years. I have completely gutted it and rewrote it at least six times. The novel mattered to me. I cared about it. It owned my heart. I was willing to pay any price to get it right. I rewrote that thing until I couldn’t look at it...
I’m in charge of my own schedule. I am in charge of what I do with my life. I don’t have to clean men’s dirty underwear and socks. I don’t have to clean up after a man. I’m in charge of the remote control. Well, at least until my boyfriend visits. I don’t have to...
What’s up with all these labels we slap on other people and make them live with, like the label is the sum of who they are? One of the times I really felt the sting of a label was when I got the “separated” title slapped onto me. My X#2 wanted a divorce. I get that....
