Letters Books Paradise Author Events Readers Photos Reviews Press Home   Someone just told me it is now March. An entire month has disappeared just like that! All I have to do is look out of my office window to know that spring has nothing to do with March 1st. Just this moment we are having yet another blizzard in Wisconsin, and the birds are hanging onto my feeders with their little beaks as the winter wind knocks the living hell out of them. Enough already -- we all know there is now global warming. What a month this has been for me…~!!! Wow, is what I have to say, just like Meg in Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn as I just finished almost five weeks of touring for The Sunday List of Dreams. My last event this past month was Tuesday night in Mequon, Wisconsin and I am here to report the tour was a terrific success thanks to everyone who turned out and all of you who are buying my books. Touring is hard work, but I so love it…call me nuts but getting to meet so many of you and to hear your stories and to feel your energy and power is a great way for me to refuel my jets as I do some editing on my next novel, Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA and begin serious work on the novel after that. Those of you who did not get a chance to meet me should watch my events listing on this site, as I am scheduling more events and hopefully a small summer tour as well when I do not have my large Radish nose in this computer. And before I forget you can always get in touch with me via Bantam Dell or Random House to request a phone chat to your book club. They really are a lot of fun and I do LOTS of talking and it seems to me as if I am sitting in your living room. Also this month I begin chatting on the Barnes and Noble Book Club site as one of their March featured authors. I invite you to join me there, and join in what promises to be some lively, honest, and very open discussions about my books and my writing life. As I have toured these past few weeks so many of you have dared to give your own dreams wings and share them with me and others -- I will continue to post those dreams here as you send them. I have this notion that by voicing dreams and putting them "out there," the energy we all add to them helps them fly faster. So be brave and let them go…~!! I am having a wild time doing some edits on Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA -- which will be in your hands next January -- and I am beyond excited about this novel, its messages, and the work I have done to stretch myself as a writer. Stay tuned because during the next few months I will be talking more about this book. In other news, daughter Rachel has now run out of gas twice in two weeks -- the gas gauge is broken and apparently she cannot remember to write down her mileage. Sigh. This morning started with her best friend and my second-daughter Trish being stuck in the ditch and things have just flown since then. Rachel has her staring role in The Chorus Line this month and has been in rehearsals for months for this exciting production. Her brother Andrew has been coming home way too often so he can go ice fishing -- go figure -- yet he continues to flourish in college, and he's getting good grades as well. He is working to get involved in student government and is anxiously awaiting moving into his first apartment in August. Mother is holding her breath. We are knee deep in a little kitchen remodeling project here that has gotten out of hand and are thinking we should probably paint the pink house so someone else will buy it next year. I'm off to the golf show this weekend and anxious to get cracking on the outdoor courses -- if the snow ever melts. My golf pro and friend Margie is making a home visit next weekend to slap me upside the head about my grip. My friend Sharon, a golf fitness professional, will accompany her to discuss my progress in the gym over a bottle or two of wine. Stay tuned. I am still chopping away at the last ten pounds that I am determined to get rid of sometime this year. I am devoted to working out no matter how much it hurts and I am determined to wear a two piece bathing suit, maybe not in public you will be glad to know, before I turn 60. Okay…..my characters are calling me and it's time to write. Here's a kiss into the wind for you and your dreams -- and a very loud wish for an early and very long spring. Always dreaming myself……
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