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16 days til I leave for Australia. This week, I found rooms for our remaining jaunts–to Cairns (how is this pronounced, my Aussie friends? ) and Sydney. Which I then changed because I met a man who played the didgereedo and he said to go to the Rocks neighborhood. One of the great pleasures [...] For the past few days, I’ve been hammering out the details of my travels this year. I’ll be teaching at The Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference again in June, and Australia in August, and San Diego in October. I’m also going to play in New Zealand with CR’s brother & family, and in NYC with [...] Today I am exasperated and bored by our weather this month. 68° | 36° Wed I know a lot of you think that sunshine is the BE-ALL, END-ALL of weather (CR) being one of you50° | 29° Thu But seriously, the air is dry as dandelion heads. The mountains look the same every [...] I’ve had the luxury of time to read some of my favorite blogs. Here are two you really must check out: A Wandering Woman Writes From Spain, subtitled: A little voice told me to quit eht big city corporate gig and wander off to Spain. I listened and these are my adventures. [...] This morning while sitting in church, I was suddenly swept with images of my recent visit to Venice Beach. I can’t tell you what sent those particular memories spinning through my brain, but I was suddenly simply awash in the way the light fell that calm, early spring afternoon, swept by the sense [...] In the mail a couple of days ago, I received a copy of a new French translation of A Piece of Heaven which is the second French translation I’ve had on this book. The first went to Canada, along with a couple of other really beautiful editions of other books. This one seems to [...] Sitting like a cat in the sunshine, even if I do fee grumpy and miserable. Still. I am a cat, as my sister tells me (dogs have owners, cats have slaves, and yes, that’s why I adore her because she’s always given me this great vision of myself) , and you know that dogs [...] –Yesterday, I took my notebook to Starbucks and wrote a lot of pages longhand in my notebook while two girls talked about their boyfriends and who was pretty at school. I kept wondering why they weren’t in class at 10:30 am. –I figured out why there are pink candy skulls everywhere. –I [...] Somehow, suddenly, I’ve arrived at the final 100 pages of Elena, the MIP. It’s the most intense stage for me, when I cannot stay present in this world, this moment, because I’m over there, living in that one. It was the meals I cooked under the influence of There that I earned such [...] Blogs have been scarce for several reasons. I’m finishing the second of two voice classes. Planning two day-long intensives and arranging those trips (during which I will see one son in NYC and the other will go with me to Florida–yippee!). Mainly, however, I’m working on the MIP. The chef interview was fantastic and [...] |
Barbara Samuel O'Neal is the author of more than thirty award-winning novels, including Rita Award Winning THE LOST RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS and THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING. Her newest book HOW TO BAKE A PERFECT LIFE is available NOW!
A native of Colorado, Barbara loves teaching, travel, reading, writing, yoga, walking, food, cooking, photography and...okay, reality television. |
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