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A Fine Piece… Weekend in Scotland

Letter from London… 26 May 2005 Since we met in 2002, Colin and I have been doing something that a lot of heavy-in-love couples do: we surreptitiously compete to see who can give the best Christmas and birthday presents. The first Christmas, when we had only been together a few months, I gave Colin a…

First draft complete

Starbucks in Maida Vale, London. W9. I finished the first draft of “The One” today. I was listening to my Mp3 player, and pushed my way through the outline, through the epilogue. No, I don’t have a publisher. No, I don’t have an agent. No, you can’t read it, yet. But, yes, I have finished…

Letter from Egypt

Lavender Jellyfish and Why you Shouldn’t Rent a Scooter in a Foreign Country 04 April 2005 So this is how it happened. It was the last few days of our trip, at the resort in Sharm el-Sheik on the Sinai Peninsula. Tired of Italians smoking and yammering on their cell phones everywhere, tired of being…