I’m really excited that my website is being redesigned. Right now this site is just a super-stuffed blog that I designed myself including the header which, although cheerful, is not quite right.
Any suggestions of stuff you’d like to see/be able to do, please let me know.
The wonderful Melanie Lowe is doing the design to make […]

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An interview about The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say “I Do”
TODAY 2/16

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Woke at 530 am. Was nervous about meetings today and after much thought and study, devised the following step-by-step strategy:
1. Feel nervous.
2. Rouse good cheer and trust in my own intelligence.
3. Drop all of that.
4. Click in with the atmosphere of the meeting […]

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Unlike fiction writers, we non-fiction, self-helpy people don’t submit books, we submit book proposals, a lengthy outline of an idea. Good news: The book is sold before you start writing it. Bad news: creative direction is subject to group-think.In writing 4 books, I’ve screwed this creative direction thing up every which way. I’ve acted the […]

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Yes, I was on Oprah. Two times in late 2003, early 2004. Without fail, when someone hears I’ve been on the show assumptions are made:
1. I must have pulled some wicked strings to get myself on.
2. I am now rich.
If only it were that simple. I’d be spending money […]

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I taped a short segment on the Tyra Banks show on Dec 5. It was about asking The Hard Questions before you get married.
This is not the dress I wore, but it was basically this style:

Here’s what happened:
The roller coaster ride is over and I’m back at my desk in Boston wondering if the whole […]

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Taping an interview today on the Tyra Banks show!!! Totally came out of the blue. As these things do. I’ll be talking with Tyra and a very adorable couple about their plans to marry and why it’s important to ask The Hard Questions. I don’t know when it will air; perhaps Valentine’s Day.
From past experience, […]

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I appreciate you who come here to read my blog. I keep up with the stats every now and then and am so happy about the amount of visitors. I’m about to start a site re-design. I’m looking for input in two areas:
First, what do you enjoy reading about?? My interests are so varied: Buddhism, […]

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Am in a bit of a no man’s land regarding the next book I want to write. I want to write about heartbreak from this perspective: there is wisdom in it. The good news and the bad news is that it basically destroys self-view. You are no longer able to see yourself or your life […]

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and put a picture of me at the top. i’m starting to feel very happy.

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