Quiescent

This blog will remain quiet for a while as I launch my new book site for Behind the Bedroom Door or until the next time I travel. Meanwhile, follow my transformation to a sexpert
on my newest virtual adventure.
Ciao amici!
Paola

The First Reading of Behind the Bedroom Door

will be at my neighborhood Barnes and Noble on Broadway and 82nd St. on January 15th. WOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOO! Rachel Resnick gave me very good advice today, which was to come up with a more G-rated reading (one my nephews could attend) and one that's more racy and raw. Curious? Read more about Bedroom Door...

Come one, come all. (Hey, that's a double entendre!)
Ciao amici--
Paola

Vice Presidential Debate Rating

Wow. This was a good debate (at least comparatively). I was extremely impressed with Biden, but my favorite moment was Sarah Palin's Freudian slip: When she said "McCain should leave" instead of "McCain should lead..."

Palin was decent. There is a definite sharpness to her--she was clearly able to keep a lot of recently tutored facts in her head. Which makes her all the more scary.

Biden was terrific--I like him 100 percent better than I did before--and his voice breaking when he talked about his kids and the car accident was both poignant and actually a great way to quash Palin's "I'm a hardworking mom!" schtick!

But it was refreshing to watch a debate in which issues were actually addressed, questions answered, important causes talked about, like Darfour.
Ciao bambini--
Paola

Apples and honey and a sweet New Year

What could be more renewing than autumn in the Berkshires with my two favorite boys in the whole wide world?
Ciao--
Paola

A wild and wooly Woodstock weekend

I should have been a hippie. Peace out.
Baci--
Paola

The reservoir, 6:20 PM

Is it my imagination?

Or is McCain less than inspiring? I'm listening to and watching his speech and thinking that he seems like a carefully modulated automaton delivering memorized lines and many redundancies: "I will fix problems that need to be fixed" instead of simply "I will fix problems."

I don't understand why this would even be a contest? Truly: a contest between good and evil, as primal as muslim fundamentalism in its way.

Ciao, belli--
Isn't my nephew Jordan so handsome? He's my little heartbreaker!