Going on all the time here are Book Expo Educational Programs, panels and talks for booksellers and publishers on a variety of ways to sell books better and sell better books. I am in one right now called “Steal This Book: Selling and Promoting Literature on the Edge.” I came because I thought I might [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Book Expo – Day 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Book Expo, prayer beads on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Book Expo, Day One
Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized, tagged Book Expo on May 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Thursday Morning, Oakland International Airport For the next few days – Thursday through Sunday – I will be attending Book Expo in Los Angeles, Calif. I am going with Publishers Weekly, for whom I frequently write, and will try and pick up and write several stories for them from the floor show. But I will [...]
Prayer Beads on NPR Today
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged " mala on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Woke up this morning to this wonderful story on National Public Radio about a day in the life of a Hindu monk living in New York City. Take a listen to the story, which includes a good five seconds of the monk, 35-year-old Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, chanting while using his mala prayer beads, pictured at [...]
Thoughts on Blogging
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging on May 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
On Sunday, I came across this article in the New York Times’ Sunday Magazine. Written by Emily Gould, it seemed to promise to be a story about the perils and pluses of having a personal blog. But halfway into this story, I was still trying to figure out why the magazine had chosen to dedicate [...]
Paper Prayer Beads
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Bead for Life, Catholic rosary, prayer beads on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Sea Ranch, Monday morning . . . . This morning, sitting in the window overlooking the ocean, I got out the packet of paper beads I ordered last month from Beads for Life. I am going to hold a Beads for Life party in June and I couldn’t wait till then to see what [...]
Praying at the Sea Ranch
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, prayer, prayer beads, Sea Ranch on May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My husband and I just returned from The Sea Ranch, where we went to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary for four nights. We did not have internet access while we were there, or cellphones (yeah!), so it was a very low tech long weekend. But I did take my computer and wrote and stored some [...]
Catholic Exhibition at New York Museum
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Came across this story in the New York Times the other day about a major show at the Museum of the City of New York on the history of the city’s Catholic community. Is anyone who reads this blog in New York City and planning to see this show? If you do, please report here [...]
Are We Wired for Religious Experience?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brain, neuroscience, prayer on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hope you all saw David Brooks’ most recent column in May 13th’s New York Times. I was pleased to see him recommend the work of Dr. Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania, who I had the pleasure of interviewing once for a story I wrote for USA Today about speaking in tongues. In his [...]
Prayer Beads in the Grand Rapids Press
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, tagged prayer beads on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This must be my lucky weekend! Not only did Bead One, Pray Too appear in an article in The Toledo Blade (see last post!) but it was also in an article in The Grand Rapids Press – on the same day! Thank you Juanita Westaby for a great article, and thanks to my friend and [...]
Bead One, Pray Too in the Toledo Blade
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, tagged prayer beads on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yeah! Here is the article about the trunk show of the prayer beads from Bead One, Pray Too currently on display at Maumee, Ohio’s Bonita Bead Boutique. The article appears in today’s Toledo Blade. Thank you, David Yonke, religion reporter extraordinaire! I love the part of the story about the sisters, Anita and Ann, who [...]
