The Performed Life

Is it just me or is it becoming near impossible to live life without defaulting into instant replay at every turn? Worse still, are we headed for live-streaming the peaks, valleys, and plains of our every second on earth? Signs of this hyper-self-consciousness are...

Thai Elephants at Risk

Here’s a super disturbing update from Lek Chailert, founder of the elephant sanctuary I volunteered at last June. Seems she’s been targeted by the government because she’s been outspoken about widespread elephant abuses…now they’re coming...

Platform Shlatform

The very word makes me want to go lie down, but every writer who wants more than just her spouse and mother to read her book (much less buy it), needs to have a platform. A platform is what I bring to the table, a promise to publishers that I have a network, a...