Things other than my blog that you need to read

1. Please go see Wendy B's fantastic new blog Francis: The Blog. Let me have Wendy explain it: "I’ve created this blog for my designing friend Christian Francis Roth and his Francis clothing line. But it won’t be all clothes all the time. I’ll also take you behind the scenes at the studio and out on the town. It will be just like the fly-on-the-wall Valentino documentary, but online and without the savage tan. (Didn’t see the movie? Do it! It’s great.)"

2. If like me you dream of having an agent and publishing and you fear it may never happen for you please go and read Shelli at Market My Word's incredibly inspiring success story and congratulate her, she got an agent!! I have read her success story three times and I will reread it again and again when I once again give up hope that it will ever happen for me. Congratulations, Shelli, and thank you for the inspiration!

3. The first chapter of my favorite book of the moment, "On Moving" by Louise DeSalvo. I cannot recommend this book enough even if you aren't planning to move anytime soon.

4. Not to toot my own horn ( toot-toot) but the nice people at GazeboNews: News and Stuff About Lake Forest and Lake Bluff have written a post called, "California Dreamin" about one ex-Lake Bluff resident. Any idea who they are talking about? Thanks to them I now have readers from Forest and Bluff. Please, don't be shy, Forest and Bluffers, leave a comment and say hello.