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It was a beautiful beach day here in NYC. Full of vim and vigor and borderline manic levels of optimism, I decided to take Josh and his pal Amanda ("the love of his life," as he informs me) to Coney Island. So we went. We rode the rides, played the arcade games, ate...

Ever feel like you've been shot out of a cannon with one foot tied to the ground? That pretty much sums up my past few months. Here are the highlights: Went to Writefest 2005 in Austin, Texas, hosted by the adorable and fabulously talented duo of Cynthia and Greg...

I am making cupcakes for a BBQ. My son has poured about a gallon of food coloring into the bowls of vanilla frosting, turning them unnaturally bright shades of their normal colors. It's not green but GREEN!!! Not orange but ORANGE!!! It looks like a set from Willy...

I've come to the conclusion that I just don't know how to behave when I'm not on deadline. For the past 18 months, I have been under nearly constant pressure to write one novel or another, and then suddenly, come May, I...wasn't. It feels a bit like that scene in "The...

RULES I HAVE BROKEN THIS WEEK 1. Never give to those people collecting for charity on the street. Usually, my policy is to ask someone to send me something in the mail so I can read up on it and send in my 22 cents or whatever. I have a knee-jerk reaction against...

Argh, matey. I'm struggling to finish a novel I promised to someone back in the fall when I was under duress to get out another novel--never a good time to make promises. So as I kept saying, yeah, yeah, sure, no problem on that deadline, I wasn't thinking about the...

It's my birthday. Woke up this morning and said two words: Monkey Bread. Now, you may be saying to yourself, What a strange person. What secret meaning does that phrase hold? And how do they get the monkeys on the bread? Come, let me show you the secrets of the sea....

So I went to New Orleans last weekend and did a little research for the new book. What can I tell you about my trip? Well, first of all, New Orleans is a completely different town when you are not 21 and drunk. (I spent my 21st birthday puking in a parking lot there,...

I meant to write today. Instead I went to see "Constantine." I think if you're going to waste time you should really do it up right. The movie is pretty lame except when Tilda Swinton comes onscreen, and you are like, oh thank GOD there is someone with more than three...

I am ignoring my child to update my live journal. Some day he will talk about this in therapy. I turned in the the final-final draft of REBEL ANGELS yesterday. I have not been so happy since I discovered that my local bakery makes honkin' big cinnamon buns with icing...

I love reading through my spamblocker. Here are my favorite random spam mails as of this writing: Your Missing Info Was Found 23th December (hmmm, did my missing info include the letters "rd" which usually follow the date "23"? Just wondering.) Psychic Advice, New Low...

Wow. Four whole months since my last post, huh. It's, um, (counting off in her mind)...October. Hoo-boy. I thought I'd be much better at this cyber navel-gazing thing than I am. It's good to see that I am just as disorganized here as elsewhere. Well, huh. Guess I've...