The Tick-Tock of My 15 Minutes Instead of My Biological Clock

Check it out…Hilarity in Shoes is being featured at Single Edition Media!  Read all about it (me)!  See a sample below…

(Also: Check out the new little tumblr site I’m running in honor of National Poetry Month.  One new poem every day for 30 days only. Don’t worry, I’m not writing them, just curating.)

Q: In one of your posts, you urge your readers to look for reasons to love people. Did you stumble upon the key to keeping an open heart?

I wish I could say yes, and then you could ask me what it was, and I could tell you, and an editor would read my answer and offer me a book deal, and I would write a funny and wistful and poignant memoir about How I Learned to Open Myself Up to Love, and then I could get really good highlights and go on talk shows to talk about my book, and I would be self-effacing yet wise, and people would stop me at Starbucks and say that they think I am a good writer and that they want to be my friend and/or marry me. Alas, all I can say is that I wish desperately that I had started thinking and talking about love in my 20s so I was that much further along now.  I’ve always been terrified to try things that might lead to failure, and relationships fell into that category for a long time because they feel risky as hell.  The one thing I have learned, and that I tell everyone, is that you’d better not waste time languidly waiting for Love to trip and fall into your lap–this is the one life we have, and if love is important to you, you’d better be out there looking for it.  The risk of losing out is just too high if you don’t.