Three things about Parenting in the Here and Now: 1. Reframes common parenting struggles and provides compassionate guiding principles instead of hard and fast rules. 2. It is the book I wished for when I was a young parent! 3. Conscientious...

Thanks, Bar.  An interview will be new ground, but I am excited as well as nervous.  I don't have a newsletter and am just reviving my old blog, but I invite you all to check out my new website for my forthcoming book: www.LeaPageAuthor.com.  Phew....

OMG.  Just got an email back from Mr. Schwartz.  He said yes to reviewing and yes to an interview!!  Now I have to figure out how one does an interview.  OK-- another item to add to your list, Kamy.  Be ready for "yes!"  Woohoo!

I just pressed "send" for a letter asking a TED talk presenter, Barry Schwartz, if he would review my new book, Parenting in the Here and Now-- and if he would be interested in an interview!  His work mirrors mine but in a different context (his in...

Debi: One of my favorite memoirs is Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals.  It is happy through and through and doesn't particularly follow the "rules" for story arc etc.  It is also nature writing.  I have read it over and over and I still...

Charlene, thank you!  But it isn't out yet.  Am in the midst of preparing for my first book (Parenting in the Here and Now,due out April) and so haven't had a chance to send queries for Something About You yet.  My publisher for the first is a small...

Thank you Charlene and Cate (and everyone else, too).  All of your comments resonate so much.  I didn't know about Carol Gilligan's study but I did read, recently, an article about creativity and how we humans say we like it but when someone shows...

I totally agree with Cate and Brooke.  Envy is dangerous.  In fact, my recently completed memoir, Something About You, is about being driven out of a small town in rural Montana, and at the root of it: envy.  My daughter often tells the story of an...