VELVET UNDERCOVER

I love all my covers, but this might just be the loveliest one yet! Observe the pretty!   Samantha Donaldson’s family has always done its duty for the British Crown. In the midst of World War I, seventeen-year-old Sam follows in their footsteps, serving her...

Keep Calm and Go Om?

I arrived late at the meditation party. Born in the sixties and raised in the seventies and eighties, many of my friends and relatives had jumped on the bandwagon way before I did. Transcendental Meditation, Buddhism, Hinduism, stonedism… even though I always had...

Organization and ALL THE THINGS

I just spent an entire month telling people what I do to try to stay organized—basically baring my cray-cray for the world to see. Showing people your own particular brand of craziness can be intimidating, but I’ve pretty much always been an open book about both my...

Organizing my Life Part 5: Home Edition

My husband is a packrat. He’s a lethal combination of sentimental and materialistic. I get it to a certain extent. His family didn’t have a lot of money and there were a lot of things he wanted but didn’t get. He has them now. He worked incredibly hard and to buy...