When you travel on vacation, do you generally disconnect totally from your job or do you make sure to stay in the loop—either a little or a lot? I admire anyone who allows the work world to completely slip away for a period, but on vacation I've always made myself [...]
If you regularly take a look at my newsletter (and thank you if you do!!), you may have heard me say that I'm a hot weather girl, someone who loves summer and dreads the onset of each long, frigid northeastern winter. Maybe it's from growing up in upstate New York, [...]
Thanks to everyone who wrote last month to say how much they liked the cover of my next mystery, Such a Perfect Wife (May '19), after I showed it off in the August newsletter. It was really fun to hear from so many of you and picture you typing a note from [...]
I've still been on the road a lot lately, and though there've been some mishaps (like a Delta flight that was over five hours late and nearly resulted in me being late for the speech I was giving), it's been a truly rewarding experience overall. On May 2, I spoke [...]
Flitting About: Because of the launch of my new career book,The Gutsy Girl Handbook: Your Manifesto for Success, I've been doing a lot of press lately, and also traveling around the country giving speeches, which I always enjoy. I like connecting with other women, and weirdly, one of my favorite pastimes [...]
Happy New Year! I hope yours is off to a wonderful start. I'm writing from Uruguay, where we live for much of the winter now. There's so much I love about being here but one of the best parts is being able to write my books in my small home [...]
Are you someone who loves incorporating rituals into your life? I would guess the answer is yes, since rituals seem to be something we crave as humans. I have a few rituals I can't live without (including yogurt and tea every morning and decorating my Christmas tree with colored lights, [...]
I hope you're having a great fall as we head toward the holidays. To be honest, I was kind of sorry to see October end. I was thinking, as the month drew to a close, that October always seems to deliver more than a hundred percent. You know what I mean? The [...]
In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan's friend Jordan Baker announces at one point during a conversation that, "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." Though Jordan isn't a very likeable character, I've always loved that quote. Because life does seem to start over again in the fall, doesn't [...]
I'm one of those people who go through life taking a lot of notes. It's probably because I feel both eager (yeah, and sometimes even a little desperate) for information. I want to know how to do the things that matter to me in the best possible way and with [...]