My Human Alarm System
A few days ago, my friend and I decided to take a Bonaire beach day. We lay on lounge chairs at Sorobon Beach Resort and watched...
What's Your Inspiration? Podcast
I recently had a fabulous conversation with Fox Beyer where we discuss the terrible neighbor and magical energy healer who inspired me to...
The Better Plan In Action
After experiencing dread around returning to LA and devising the plan launch my digital nomad journey and write my next novel in Bonaire,...
Yes, Remote Workers Actually Work
"If I worked from home, I would never get anything done." I can't count how many people have said that to me over the last 20 years that...
A New Kind of Breathwork Meditation
Yesterday, I went on a sunset snorkel cruise with the Tedesco Dive Team. I met Billie Tedesco through a Bonaire Facebook group and she...
Slow Down
Last week, my friend M loaded boxes full of the few things I decided to keep into his truck to take to my friend G's house to store in...
Save This
Yesterday, after I bought islandy-floral shorts and t-shirts, I got a message from Billie, the friend I met via the Bonaire Facebook...
Holy Trip!
"I left my laptop charger in LA and my suitcase is lost so I’m wearing someone else’s dress watching the sunset eating sushi and I don’t...
What Family Heirlooms Do You Treasure?
This was my Granny’s flatware. Didn’t she have great style? Yesterday, when my landlord was in my apartment, he spied them in box,...
What Were You Born To Do?
Today, while organizing my belongings into piles marked Donate, Store, Keep, Take [with me], I found this postcard in a bag full of stuff...
It's All Happening...
The countdown has started. I have 18 days to get rid of everything I own, get out of this apartment and launch my digital nomad journey....
Time to Write Another Book?
In early spring, I kept hearing a voice say, "Find that story. Find that story." I ignored the voice because I knew if I found the story,...
Messages Received
Returning to LA was hard and weird and…HARD. When I left almost 10 months ago, the Sunset Strip was boarded up, storefronts empty....
What Has Come to Teach You?
For years I struggled with chronic Lyme disease. Anyone who has struggled with a chronic "mystery illness" understands how the illness...
Repeat: History
Last night, I finished THE FOUR WINDS. I have several observations. First, thank God for historical fiction. Without it, I never would...
Waiting Room
That's what this feels like. The in-between of knowing something big is coming, but having to sit quietly, bored, frustrated that it's...
Bless It Or Block It
Part of "The Better Plan" is trusting that there's a better plan. Yesterday, I had an appointment scheduled to get the Johnson & Johnson...
To Go
Does my Pro-choice Pro-equality Pro-woman Pro-facts Pro-action Pro-real talk state of being make you uncomfortable? If so, good. Ask...
The Terrible Man Upstairs
STOMP. STOMP. STOMP. The art deco chandelier sways. The ceiling shakes. There’s a terrible man upstairs. Huffy. Whiny. Yelling. He yells...
The Plan
Once I realized I didn't want to go back to LA, I did what any good Angeleno does and I made an appointment with my energy healer. I...