If you posed that question to me, I'd proudly respond, "This morning!" I'm working on a deadline these days with my memoir due out at the end of April. Feels like tomorrow with all I need to do in preparation for that event. Today's task was to ask people I deeply...
You've read about my beloved theatre professor, Jim Cavanaugh, many times throughout the years on these pages. I graduated from college decades ago, and he is still an active cheerleader and mentor for me. Hardly a post of mine goes online without a comment from...
A wonderful article by Pamela Druckerman, a writer in her 40's living in Paris, wrote a piece for the NYTimes earlier this month which said, "If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It’s like a public referendum on your face." She...
The last session of my mastermind intensive held in June had a special theme. Members of the group arrived as though it were five years in the future: 2022. They dressed as the successes they'd become, brought evidence in the form of published books, checks for...
A current client shared an ad with me for a conference she believed I belonged at--Vanity Fair's FOUNDERS FAIR: Women Entrepreneurs Tell Their Stories. Sign me up! An interview with Reese Witherspoon (I'm loving her in Big Little Lies!) is the opening feature on...
Have you missed me? It's been over a month since I've posted on my blog, and here's why. I was down for the count. Whatever has been going around virally this winter found a friendly host in my chest, burrowed in and lingered for four weeks. For the first time in...
That's what one of my vision partners said to me during our meeting this morning. I was bemoaning the string of rejections I got this week, wanting sympathy or to be let off the hook. "Yeah, Jane. Give up on trying to sell your memoir." Right? In my imaginary...
Every time a person signs up to receive my newsletter, I glance at their email address and subscribe them to my list. On a rare occasion, something about their name catches my eye, like it did when Kimberley Chagnon sent her contact information to subscribe. Her...
If you guessed that I'm currently enthralled in each of their life stories, you'd be right! I just completed reading Lindy West's memoir Shrill on the subway while I travel. I'm also listening to the audible.com production of Born to Run read by Bruce himself which...
As you know, I moved permanently, I hope, into my own co-op apartment in Washington Heights last February. So this is my first holiday season in the 'new' building. Although I received the "usual suspects" list of staff wishing me a Happy Holiday Season, I wasn't...
This post isn't about the election results, although that's an underlying contributor to my angst these days. I wanted to share my frustration--and echo yours, I'm sure--with a virtual conversation I had this afternoon while trying to consolidate my email...
As I begin sending out query letters to agents to propose my memoir for publication, I take heart hearing tales of others’ artistic projects. The other night, based on a rave review by my sister, I went to see BEST WORST THING THAT EVER COULD HAVE HAPPENED, a film...
When Jen Olbrys told me that one of the stores selling her granola called with a complaint, I remembered back to my early days of wholesaling my eggshell jewelry and hearing a criticism from a vendor. “We’ve taken it off the shelf until it’s resolved,” the shop’s...
It’s not everyday you get to see a presidential motorcade. I hadn’t planned to yesterday, but en route to attend a lunch with an organization I just joined, the Women’s Media Group, I stumbled upon Obama’s visit to the UN. I’d gotten off the N train at 49th and 7th...
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