As if I didn’t have enough distractions at my desk, on my computer, to keep me from writing. And now I have another. Logitech Video. It’s like MSN Messenger with video and sound, only I can’t really get the video and sound to synch live so right now I’m in a training phase of emailing […]
Category: Hawaii
Snow Birds & Beach Girls
I’m not a snow bird or a beach girl. I am, to be quite honest, incredibly unathletic when it comes to skates, skateboards, surfboards, skis and snowboards. Anything requiring balance, edge, coordination, confidence, and speed is pretty much, not in my skill set. My skill set? Slow, grounded, immobile, fixed, quiet, contemplative. There we go. […]
Menthol Woman
There are considerable advantages to a long distance boyfriend. I only have to shave my legs when I see him, thus saving me from nicks and cuts for weeks at a time. I can leave my hair curly, only flat ironing before he arrives thus creating the impression that I’ve naturally straight shiny hair. I […]
Those Wonderful Emotions
I was asked recently by a young beautiful French Canadian woman studying psychology in Hawaii if I was an emotional person, and if so, did my emotions benefit my writing? The woman said her psych professor at the university said many artists draw on their own emotions to create. I was unusually uncomfortable answering her. […]
Blogging Q & A
Having a blog is changing things…changing me. So many of you write to me after you read my blog and I’m amazed. For years I’ve felt like a scrapper, one of those street urchins that learns to talk tough and walk tall, calling myself a lone wolf kind of woman and now I realize I’m […]
Back Pedaling
I should never say never because it always backfires on me. Even when I have the best intentions, and vow to make real changes, those vows and intentions look suspicious later. Dramatic. Emotional. Remember how a couple months ago I said I was done with Hawaii? No more going back now that Flirting with Forty […]
The Random Universe
Every now and then I’m all set to become the serious philosopher, a member of the superior analytical race and then all the little planets collide and I’m thrown off course. It’s like tumbling into a Bill Murray/Owen Wilson film (yes, I know, they did just star in a movie together, but that’s my point) […]
Risk Management
The title above is misleading. I know nothing about risk management. I am not one to play it safe. Even my closest friends will say, ‘Jane is terrifyingly impulsive.’ I’d like to say it’s because I’m brave. The truth is, I’m absurdly naive. Compound naivete with bravado (not the same thing as brave) and you […]
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