Last year's Thanksgiving story, “We're All Turkeys,” can’t be beat. It is one of my favorites. This year the universal way for the Leos to show their love at Thanksgiving was to show up. My uncle brought his family of five from the East Coast (Virginia and North Carolina). This was a big deal because […]
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11.19.04 Weekly Stats
Current Reads: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts, Positively Fifth Street by James McManus Movies this week: Incredibles, Bridget Jones 2 Song I get excited to hear: Johnny Cash, Fulsom Prison Blues Next border crossing: Tonight. Dinner in Mexico Pitches this week: 2 Assignments received: 0 Current […]
» Read more...Cowboys and Vegas…too good to be true
Do you see why I need a Gambler Girl column? The National Finals Rodeo is in Las Vegas December 3-13. Randy Travis is playing at the Golden Nugget. Me, a cowboy, and a craps table. Throw in some ice cream and we’ll call that heaven. Baby, don’t take off your hat — you still haven’t […]
» Read more...Back to Back Book Deals: Get Your Stories & Tips In!
I'm thrilled to announce that I’m getting back to back book deals with Travelers’ Tales. Humor books are working and demand calls for doing them sooner rather than later. One will release Fall ’05 and the next Spring ’06. But in book time, that means that one is due yesterday and the next is due […]
» Read more...Who Wants to Take Me?
Indian bandit king’s death sparks scramble for treasure [Yahoo News]
» Read more...Southern Cal, Here I Come
The thing about being unemployed freelancing is that you can do it from nearly anywhere. At the least, I have some options. Yesterday I got an offer to return to Beligum. The week before that I got an offer to spend some time in Virginia. I have an ongoing offer in London, but I don’t […]
» Read more...How Long Have You Been Writing on the Road?
Q & A with travel columnist Dennis McCann from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel This quote about travel writing caught my eye. How many of you can relate? “In 1998, after I wrote a book about Wisconsin for the sesquicentennial, editors asked me to hit the road and stay there and I’ve been doing this fulltime […]
» Read more...It Truly Begins
Some of you may know that I've been talking about doing a book proposal, and a book, of my love blunders. I even snuck it into a post a few weeks ago. Until I can think of something better, it’s going to be called How Not to Catch a Man. I’ve been talking about this […]
» Read more...I’m Home
But where is home? The better way to ask is, Where do you live? To which the reply I’m comfortable giving is, My storage unit is in San Francisco. It’s actually in Redwood City, but that response would require too much additional explanation. So, Susan (I’m staying with her) is forcing me to take a […]
» Read more...Author Signing at the GLBA 2004
Ha ha! It looks like I am posting before Jay Gesin. We did not end up doing any head to head blogging in the lobby this morning. I slept in, and oh how I needed it. There is a small chance I might actually return to SF semi refreshed. Or maybe I should skip San […]
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