Browsing a blog by literary agent Dana Newman, I found this unnerving picture and caption:  "My daughter rappelling down a slot canyon in Utah, during a trip her 7th grade class took with the National Outdoor Leadership School last week. She’s so much braver than me!" (I think mother and daughter are both seriously gutsy.) Read More

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my friend Carrie Knowles' modeling debut at the event called Redress Raleigh. This was her first run down the runway, and she was born in the same long-ago year that I was. I found the whole undertaking quite bold. Well, the show — of local designers doing ecological […] Read More

Goodness gracious!  My novel Revelation, which came out on Kindle last week, is suddenly Number 11 on the Amazon list of Bestselling Books on Mysticism and New Age Religion.  That is, as of 4:00 p.m. Friday.  These figures and lists are updated hourly.  Here's the page: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/12673/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_2_4_last  Not only was it that high on the list, […] Read More

ON SALE!!!   For one day, my mystical novel REVELATION, newly a Kindle e-book, will be on sale for 99 cents.  That day begins as soon as Amazon makes the change.  Here's the link to check: http://www.amazon.com/Revelation-ebook/dp/B007X45DOO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1336660926&sr=1-1   Remember: THE NEW YORK TIMES says it's "very good…You want to find out what is going to happen." Read More

  Isn't she magnificent?  Not everyone on this very cool blog is — but all are interesting.  There's some very bold style here.  Go visit Advanced Style.  There's also a hardcover spinoff by the same title coming out this very month. Read More

It has been a tumultuous week.  All in the course of the last several days, I've necessarily switched mental health drugs (which is always a storm at sea)  and I've released on Kindle my novel Revelation, which Simon & Schuster published in hardback back in the distant days of 1988 and Banks Channel Books put […] Read More

The model in question is not me. It's my office partner and friend, Carrie Knowles, who will take a turn on the runway tonight in the third annual Redress Raleigh fashion show.   I call this bold — and a lot of fun.  What she and the other models will be wearing is clothes by local Raleigh designers that are […] Read More

Novelist Herman Wouk — age 96! — has a new novel coming out in the fall.  And it's not the least bit posthumous. In the picture in The Washington Post, he looks like a fully operational 78.  His new book, The Lawgiver, is  a story of characters who are making a movie about Moses.  It is totally au courant: […] Read More

I haven't had a Coke since mid-morning yesterday — and I poured the last two-thirds of that one out in the bathroom sink. Nor have I had a tall 20 ounces of McDonald's sweet tea. Or settled down with a half-gallon of frozen yogurt.  Having a little change of diet here, dropping some of my […] Read More

Tonight I came home tired and sleepy, with work that still needed to be done.  Didn't even have the energy it takes to enjoyably procrastinate.  No weeding, reading, or frittering.  Then I remembered a tidbit of wisdom I'd been saving to post here: about a strategy for shaking an undesirable mood by behaving in opposition to the […] Read More