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Diana's Notebook
http://dianaraab.wordpress.com/
I am a memoirist, essayist, poet and teacher whose passion is keeping a notebook. My notebook is my muse and my alter ego. It contains snippets of my life and from the world around me. My hobbies include writing, writing and more writing, but when I have extra time, I enjoy reading, walking, hiking, yoga, working out, cooking and hanging out with my family and Maltese Poodle, Spunky.
In order not to become ensconced by the glare of my computer screen, I also teach at UCLA Extension Writers’ Studio and the Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference, as well as to many community groups.
- Added on: Sep 14th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: dianasnotebook
- Listed in: Writing Development and Growth
- Tags: poetry notebook writing poet essayist memoirist
Recent Posts
What Moves You?
This was a question frequently posed by my mentor, Anaïs Nin, and today I pose the question to you, my readers. During the past few weeks I have been in the midst of what could aptly be called a literary slump. Thankfully, my recent sojourn to Paris...
Thanksgiving in Paris
I am writing you from Paris where my family and I just celebrated our favorite holiday together—Thanksgiving. My son, Josh, an NYU student, is in the midst of a semester abroad here. Although this is not a French holiday—we thought we would join ...
Writing and Tooting Your Horn
Publishers used to be involved in both the editorial and marketing aspect of most (if not every) books they launched. These days, unless you are a New York Times bestselling author, publishers do little in the way of aggressive marketing, regardl...
Possibilities, Shamanic Healers and Reflections
Last Wednesday at Chaucer’s Bookstore in Santa Barbara, I attended a reading by a writing friend, Hope Edelman. We had first met at the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Program back in the 1990s—where I was the student and she the instructor...
Celebrate Collaboration
I am always up for a good reason to celebrate and today is a special one for me as it marks the launching of my latest book, YOUR HIGH RISK PREGNANCY: A PRACTICAL AND SUPPORTIVE GUIDE. This book was originally published in 1988 under the title of, Ge...
You Don’t Have to Be A Poet to Write Poetry
This past weekend marked the first of my poetry readings for my latest collection, THE GUILT GENE. This is a collection which I really enjoyed putting together. It has been said that poets should not give away their secrets because there are people s...
Great site! The Sylvia Plath poem is wondrous - thank you for reminding me.
~~ LisaB. http://dancingwithpens.blogspot.com/
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