I’ve just returned with my boys from Reno where we went for a day and a half to see my mom and catch up with my brother Thom, his wife Lee, and their two little girls. Thom lives in North Carolina and doesn’t get to the West Coast very often and my boys were dying […]
Category: Book Talk
Arrivals and Departures
The Flirting with Forty release party at Bellevue’s Barnes & Noble was great fun last night. We had about 70 people attend the bookstore event and about the same number drop in at Ooba Tooba’s for the Mai Tais and music, although not everyone attended both. Lots of the guys skipped the bookstore reading (can’t […]
Bra Hopping
The Flirting with Forty book release party is just two days away and I had a list of endless errands to get done today, among them buying more drink cups, order blown up book covers at Kinko’s, deliver vases to florist for tropical arrangements, and confirm with the musicians, a Hawaiian trio composed of University […]
Type As
I don’t know why there are Type A personalities or Type B’s. I don’t know why opposites attract and if/or the attraction lasts. I just know that I write because it gives me a goal, a focus, a direction. It organizes my brain in such a way that my intense energy, my endless restlessness, becomes […]
Crabs and Ticks
I haven’t posted in a long time. I thought about posting almost daily, but each time when I got close enough to the computer to write something for my blog, I backed away and checked email instead. You see, I’m been afraid to post as I’m afraid I’m going to be myself. I’m going to […]
Fly Girl
On Sunday (two days ago) I had to be in Reno for a 1 pm Book Club discussion. The book group had picked Frog Prince last summer as it’s May selection and I’d agreed to attend the discussion as a visiting guest author. Even better, this was my mom’s book club and it meant a […]
This Is Your Reminder
Yes, I’m pestering you. Again. What do you expect from someone called Jane the Pain? (And that was by my sister, Kathy, no less.) This is your reminder blog. My one day fire sell book club donation to www.brendanovak.com diabetes auction is live for one day only, and that’s Monday May 22nd. Bring me to […]
The Problem with Good
The problem with good things and good times is that well, they’re good. And it’s hard to talk too much about good times, good memories, good luck–good stuff–without sounding like you’re bragging or all high on yourself. Now if you’re a guy, you can get away with good talk easier than a chick. Because guys […]
All In A Day’s Work
The day started fine. Well, sort of fine. I woke up to the sound of my oldest blowing his nose, coughing, and doing that disgusting throat clearing thing between pathetic moans. It continued with him convincing me he couldn’t go to school being deathly sick and with me sending him back to bed even as […]
Women & Story
Last week I was pushing hard to finish a book before hopping on a plane for Honolulu to participate in Hawaii’s first Book & Music Festival. I’d been scheduled months earlier to speak but the topic hadn’t been firmed up until two weeks prior and only then was it decided that I’d address, ‘Why Women […]
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