The Invitation

By On May 14, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dear Friends,
This is a poem that really speaks to my heart. Yesterday was the anniversary of my Mother’s death. That, plus Mother’s Day, has me in a place of contemplation.
I hope you get something from this wonderful piece.

The Invitation
by Oriah

It doesn’t interest me
what you do [...]

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The TV Guide shoot

By On June 25, 2012 · 8 Comments

With all the chat going on about the ‘flipping the bird’ shot from the TV Guide shoot, I thought I’d post the piece from my book “Pleasure Thresholds” about that photograph.

The TV Guide Cover Shoot
Spring 1997

When it filtered through the cast that TV Guide was going to feature Babylon 5, [...]

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Conventions

On February 13, 2012 By

An Excerpt From “Pleasure Thresholds”…..

A word about conventions.

The actors who are on the shows that get promoted at cons are a very lucky bunch. You could be on a hit series like ER , but those shows don’t have fans dressing up in scrubs and getting in line to meet them. These days [...]

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Strong Women

On January 15, 2012 By

One of my very closest friends, Laurie, sent me this poem this morning. A friend had sent it to her. Ah the blessings of the internet! It’s a poem written by Marge Piercy,and it made me start in surprise. It’s like someone read my journal, and validated my struggle. I’m still crying.
As a [...]

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Love Should Not Hurt

On December 8, 2011 By

“LOVE SHOULD NOT HURT. If you are a victim of relationship abuse, know two things: It is not your fault. And there are people who want to help you.”

December 8, 2011 is the Seventh Annual It’s Time To Talk Day, a day that is dedicated to just this one goal: to start and continue [...]

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Sekhmet

On October 28, 2011 By

Joe gave me a Goddess on Wednesday.
It was this very interesting day. I found myself up as usual at 6am but with a very strong mood already upon me. No time to rev up for the day, I was already fretful, teary, profoundly disturbed. An actor was a victim of a hate crime [...]

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It’s Your Turn

On September 24, 2011 By

A HUGE Thank YOU to all of you who have bought the book, Pleasure Thresholds, and the package that comes with it. Jaclyn called today and the book is selling incredibly well. I am so excited. Now it’s your turn to write. I want to know what you think about the package, the DVD, the [...]

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What ‘Pleasure Thresholds’ is doing for me

On September 19, 2011 By

Unexpected Pleasures:

When Jaclyn Easton, my publisher ( I just like saying that) first talked to me about this book, I remember think 2 things; First, I had been encouraged to write a book before about my stories and was completely bored by the idea. Second, that since this was to be based on my [...]

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Very Busy with my Pleasure Thresholds!

On September 10, 2011 By

Oh I have been so BAD! Way too busy with the book and not blogging for my peeps. The good news is the new version of the book is SO much bigger, better and more beautiful than the Comicon version. I have doubled the word count, added photos and documents and lots of love. It’s [...]

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Pleasure Thresholds has a new date

On August 7, 2011 By

The upshot of my conference with editor Jason Davis and designer Kirk Lamb is that we are pushing the release date for the book to mid September. I have a lot more to write! The good news is this means the book will have 50 additional pages and we think it really will be the [...]

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