What it means to be a 'successful' writer... There are bookstores around the country that will put an author on a bestsellers list if the store decides to carry their book, regardless of sales. One of these was Rakeshaw Books in Danville, CA. I’d finished my first novel, REVERB, and got a small publisher to pick it up, … Continue reading Writing for a Living
NEW RELEASE! Coloring Book and Greeting Cards is here: https://amazon.com/dp/173254316X https://vimeo.com/1107124632 This Coloring Book is a Garden of Creative Possibilities Inside this book are canvases of botanicals imagined by the mathematical beauty of fractals, and hand-drawn from nature. Whether you’re attracted to symmetry, or wild, spiraling complexity, each design invites you to pause and see … Continue reading Flowering Fractals Coloring Book is Here!
Why the Godfather of AI believes it may end the human race in 30 yrs... Copilot is my primary AI bot. I use it all day, every workday as my primary search engine, to create artwork, to write a wide variety of standard communications that I edit to my voice. Regardless how smooth the dialog … Continue reading The Unforeseen Problem Working with AI
I called my medical insurer to dispute some doctor bills I’d received that they denied. The recorded voice of a lovely woman led me through the maze of prompts telling me what to press on my phone to 'better serve me.' After getting through the first number sequence that vaguely applied to my needs, my … Continue reading Don’t Press Send
Last night my husband got very sick. He was vomiting simultaneously with diarrhea and shat himself. He was restless through the night and got up early, clearly still feeling ill. This morning when I came downstairs I asked him how he was feeling. Not so great, he told me. Still have diarrhea, but I’m not … Continue reading The Internet is God
IMAGINE working your ass off all through high school, studying instead of partying, volunteering with school and community groups so you can get into a good college. You send out your applications, to Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, as you have a 4.8 GPA, and all the right clubs on your resume. Your mom kisses each envelope before … Continue reading The TRUTH about Mark Zuckerberg
I’m scared out of my mind, though I suppose I shouldn’t be. Cancer is not unexpected. I’ve been waiting for the diagnosis for years. Still, when I felt the tenderness in my breast a month ago I passed it off as a pulled muscle from weightlifting. I tried to ignore it last week too, told … Continue reading Looking for Cancer
I’m looking to buy a new home in Northern California. I peruse Redfin 5xs a day, (and yup, I’m OCD about real estate), then send links of homes that spark my interest to our real estate agent. This agent quickly and efficiently sold our last home a few years back. She made $81,000 on the … Continue reading The Problem with Realtors
or Review of The Hunger Games series… ONE WISH. Right now. What would it be? Mom asked me and my sister on our drive home from school when I was 10. She often came up with non sequiturs to kill the silence following our monosyllabic responses when she asked about our day. To get those … Continue reading 6M Yrs of Human Evolution
I’m a ‘sit on the couch and eat ice cream’ type of person. I don’t live that way. I workout 5 days a week, 5 miles or more a day, watch little TV and rarely stream ’cept when I’m working out and weekend movies. If I had no desire to live an active life, I would have continued to … Continue reading Aging Well
