Nearly Orthodox

My first book came out last year. It wasn't the book I expected to write and publish first. I thought and hoped that someone would bite on the book about movement or the poetry collection or the essay collection I'd written over the years. I thought someone might even be interested in the fiction I'd been toiling over. But this is the one that got hold of a publisher's interest and so I put it out there. So far, so good. It's doing well and I still love it like a first child well labored over.

I spend most of my time writing when my four children are at school. Some of it I actually get paid for, in fact. That's always nice. I spend so much of my child-free time working on my writing that I often forget about keeping up with the laundry, the cooking, the upkeep. Writing is like that for me, self-forgetting. Things melt away and suddenly it's 2:30 and I'm meant to leave this comfortable chair and move blinking into the sunlight to meet the school bus.

When I'm not writing I'm working with clients looking to know and love their bodies better. I've been a certified personal trainer with ACE since 1998. So in that vein, my second book just got picked up and will be called "Garden in the East: The Spiritual Life of the Body." Hopefully, it will hit the bookstores the middle of next year. :)