by Ana Maria Toro Perhaps more than in any other city in the country, New York depends heavily on its trains: by connecting five spread-out boroughs, they are the veins that pump life into the city and give it its collective heartbeat. The long steel cars that announce their arrival like an angry beast hold…
by Janet Bein, Vivified Diva The best thing about going to see Menopause the Musical, a supposedly hilarious celebration of this inevitable rite of passage, was the female camaraderie. I went with a whole slew of female buddies who were all over fifty years of age. Some of my buddies brought their buddies, which made…
Today I sent my introduction and a few chapters of FLY SOLO off to my editor at Penguin (Perigee imprint). I wrote about San Francisco, Reykjavik Iceland, Amsterdam, Crested Butte Colorado, and Vienna. It’s nerve-racking sending that much content to an editor for the first time. Will she like what I’ve poured my heart into,…
Spent our first morning hiking along the Santa Clara riverbank – finding many petroglyphs in the high canyon walls. In January the river broke the banks and swept 22 homes away – carving new banks and destroying some of the trail. Guess this is only a once in a 100 years kind of thing. Great…
It’s Sunday afternoon and the past few days have been a blur. On Thursday I flew down to San Diego to do some FLY SOLO research and attend a fundraiser for Project Concern, an organization that helps save lives and builds healthy communities throughout the world. Check them out at www.ProjectConcern.com. Saturday morning we flew…
I am pulling it all together – at the last moment as I usually do. I know will be up all night. At 3:00 am, I will give up and give in to sleep. Still – I will need to rise early to come back to the office in the morning to feed Tango –…
My first stop will be the merry city of London. There, I’ll be attending the World Travel Market – the largest travel show on the planet. I’ll be scoping out the next “IT” destinations for us solo divas. I’ll be dreaming at 51 Kensington Court, an early Victorian townhouse in the leafy and prestigious Kensington…