Nature’s show

by | May 15, 2005 | Write Thinking

I love the commercial where the father walks into the house at night and the wife and all the kids are glued to the TV. The next thing you know they’re all piled into an SUV. He drives them through the woods to a secluded spot and they huddle together and look...

Sweet Saturday

by | May 14, 2005 | Write Thinking

When I woke up this morning, I felt very refreshed and decided to let the day be organic. Yes, my home needed cleaning and my book needed writing. But the weather was so darned perfect that I couldn’t treat it lightly. Sunny but with a cool breeze. Being in the...

Hair

by | May 12, 2005 | Write Thinking

I hadn’t had a hair cut and color since the fall and was in desperate need of both. My hair had gotten an out of control, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm look to it. A friend recommended her stylist and friend, who works from her home.What pure joy! I walked out of...

French fancy

by | May 10, 2005 | Write Thinking

I’m working in a place that sublets apartments in New York, Paris, London and the South of France. A huge poster of the latter — specifically, a gorgeous mountain surrounded by a field of flowers — stares at me as I sit at my desk. I am constantly...