Do you like chocolate? Do you need chocolate? Some people I know don’t care for it. But that’s a small minority. Most of us cultivate a friendship with this irreplaceable food, a friendship based on fond memories, instant gratification, and insatiable desire. Okay, maybe that’s what some people call an addiction. In my new short story, Lies Between […]
Book 2 of the Wild at Heart series, Paradise Wild, is set on Maui, the second most populated Hawaiian island. Just as book 1, Wild Within, gave you a taste of what it’s like to hike the Pacific Crest Trail in California, Paradise Wild gives an insider’s view of what it’s like to live in […]
A recent Wild at Heart Newsletter survey and giveaway asked readers to describe where they’d met the biggest love of their life. As usual, the race for number one answer was neck-and-neck for days. Did people meet at work? In a bar? Online? You really have to be lucky… Sometimes it’s more difficult than you think. […]
Last winter I read Robert McKee’s Story for the first time. After that, Ron and I took a different approach to watching movies. We used to hit pause only for bathroom breaks. But now after the first ten minutes of a movie we take a moment to ask each other, “What was the inciting incident?” […]
A friend recently sent me the link to the final five minutes of an interview with Marurice Sendak. The two progressed from talking about Sendak’s book to simply talking. In the end their conversation centered around life, loss, and love. It’s a beautifully moving five minutes, full of the contradictions we all embrace in our […]
Yesterday my iPhone started acting like a phone. That sent me running to the Apple store this morning. Who cares if the phone function works? I had no data! I got to the store as the doors opened and squeaked into the short line for a Genius Bar appointment. I was told I would have […]
