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What The
Hell...?
Otherwise...enjoy these sneak peaks: "What is your most ridiculous fear?" "Walking
across a pier, I can look straight down and be afraid of
falling through the cracks and into the water.
Okay, that was my "That
my husband would find anyone more attractive than me
(he's helping me do this - he just earned a LOT of
points)" "People
thinking I'm invisible." "Of
being trapped in a car plummeting over a bridge (or in
the collapse of a bridge) into deep, dark water."
"Boxers of briefs?" "Briefs.
I just bleached all the stains out this morning." "Are
you asking if I prefer a breed of dog to legal
documents?" "Definitely
briefs. Please. Preferably mesh or latex." "Boxers.
Silk, preferably."
"Are aliens real?" "Of
course they are. They're residing on Vulcan, the
planet just beyond Pluto, ordering all that weird mail
order stuff from late night TV with credit cards.
They also single-handedly keep McDonald's in
business." "I
am." "Yessss!!!!!
In fact, I work with several at the office." "Of
course." "Certainly
aliens are real...who else lives on all those bazillions
of planets out there? Do they visit Earth, however, is
quite another matter. In the first place, why would they?
What do we have to offer that they can't get anywhere
else [oh, sure, we've got 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and
some great pizza, and then there's cornbread, but really,
what else?] Secondly...well, actually,there IS no
secondly, is there?"
"If I could have one wish, I would wish..." "That
the future we've seen in STAR TREK would really come to
pass. World peace, no more hunger, all that other
good stuff. Oh yeah, and I'd want to know the
Vulcan Nerve Pinch." "That
people would live with the understanding that we are all
partners on this planet; we are not separate cities,
countries, nations, races and religions. We are all
brothers and sisters to each other." "...That
we'd all learn (myself included) how to be a part of the
web of life instead of trying to rip it apart and spin it
into something different from intended." "To be
the queen of the universe and make all the governments
work the way they're supposed to."
"If I were a cartoon character I'd be..." "Speedy
Gonzalez's big brother. I love his energy, but he's
way too "Jessica
Rabbit" "Eeyore." "Astro-girl." "I
would without a doubt be one of the X-Men--of course, I'd
have to make
"On a Saturday night you'll find me...? "Lying
in bed with my wife, getting drunk and eating
pizza. Getting too drunk to do what you thought I'd
be doing with her, in fact. Not much else to do on
Saturday night in Hong Kong." "In
fuzzy slippers with my feet up, noshing on a very large
order of fast food and watching old movies with the cat
purring on my stomach." "On a
date with my husband. After twenty-one years of marriage,
we still go out to the finest restaurants on Saturday
nights, enjoy a leisurely dinner, drinks or maybe a
bottle of wine. Unless of course, there's an ice hockey
game in town.... Then we're chomping on peanuts, guzzling
overpriced beer and yelling, 'Skate! Skate!'." "...Doing
things with my husband we're not going to talk about
(unless we fall asleep watching a movie first)."
"Describe yourself in one line..." "An
American redneck in Hong Kong." "Short,
shy and reclusive." "The
world's oldest teenager." "I'm a
joyful explorer. That one line was a 'mantra' of sorts of
mine that I was asked to develop many years ago, when I
was in a spiritual healing group. We were asked to boil
our essences down to a one-liner that defined our
uniqueness in an "I am..." statement. After
much thought, I came up with "I'm a joyful
explorer". I think that says it all."
"If you could be anyone (dead or alive) who would you be? And why?" "I
guess I'd have to be me, just because I can't even
imagine what it would be like to be anyone else. Um
wait, I'm a writer... maybe I shouldn't say that." "Sometimes
I think I'd like to have been Guinevere, because I
couldn't imagine giving my heart to anyone but Arthur,
even if Lancelot turned my head a bit. But it's
always easy to criticize with a few centuries of
hindsight under your belt!" "There
are so many people, both dead and alive, that I admire,
but to choose one I would say Neil Armstrong. To go to
the moon, well that took courage and faith." "Could
it be someone fictitiously dead or alive? How about
captain of an intergalactic starship? Or Tasha Yar, when
she was 'alive' and Chief of Security on Star Trek TNG?
Or maybe I'd opt to be the starfreighter captain who was
Benjamin Sisko's girlfriend on Deep Space Nine (wasn't
her name Cassandra?). " "Beatrix
Potter. As close to perfection as an author can possibly
be, she was a happy woman in an idyllic setting we can
only dream of today." "Me.
Despite all the mistakes I've made, I'm quite fond of the
life I have, and I want to keep working on it. Let other
people keep their own achievements, and problems." "Sally
Rider. I'd love to be an astronaut. I'd be in
that bird in a heartbeat. And to walk in
space--what a rush!" "I’m
real happy being me, but...it wouldn’t be bad to be
someone who’s accomplished more in their life, like
a doctor." "I'd
be myself in ten years, and already have everything I'm
working so hard for now."
"What is your greatest fear?" "I'm
in the grips of it right now. Not being able to
write another book. It hits me whenever I finish
writing one, and it's hitting me now that I've published
my first one in twelve years. Even though I have
three more scheduled for publication in 2001, I'm afraid
that when that last one is published, there will be no
more." "Of
being trapped in a car plummeting over a bridge (or in
the collapse of a bridge) into deep, dark water." "Flying" "My
greatest fear is that I'll come to end of my life, look
back, and realize that I missed too many opportunities,
friendships, and things that would make me nod and say,
"Yep, I really lived my life. I enjoyed it, I
contributed, I did my best, I'll be missed." And,
that, because of a lost life, my life goal won't be met.
I judge a life as successful if there are people in the
world who truly mourn your passing. I hope there are many
when that day comes." "That
when I submit my ebook to Steven Spielberg, he'll decide
not to make it into a movie." "That
the rest of the world will ever find out about my
greatest fear." "To
die and nobody would genuinely mourn my passing. That
would be horrible." "My
greatest fear is that after I finish one book, I'll never
be able to write another. This is an on-going
phobia and lasts until I actually sit down at the
computer and start writing that next project." "You
said this was an easy one? Perhaps it might be for
someone prone to phobias. But only only feel fear when
confronted with a problem and so, at that time, whatever
the problem is, that's the fear I feel. For example,
before showing up in court, I'm scared of what the judge
will say and that is my greatest fear.But the next week,
it might be fear of what the Doctor will say. My greatest
fear at the moment? Fear of this flue I've come
down with, developing into bronchitis or pnemonia."
"What's something about you that few people know?" "I
could go on all day. That I write in my underwear,
that I'm much quieter in person, that I've been shot at,
that I didn't reach puberty until I was 20, that I used
to masturbate boars for a living, that I order beer
deliveries on the Internet." "I'm
painfully shy." "I
take cockroaches out of the house rather than killing
them." "That
I’m 6’ tall and I used to rodeo." "Being
as loquacious as I am, probably very little. [grin] Maybe
that I seriously considered studying for the ministry a
few years ago. It's an idea I've not totally discarded,
either." "I
have absolutely no ego at all, though I often feign one
for the look of the thing." "That
I'm really very shy. I'm not comfortable in large
groups or at parties and I tend to enjoy my
solitude." "That
I eloped to Las Vegas with my first husband four months
prior to the wedding." "That
I'm a Modern Day Wizard." "That
I played Hippolyte the Amazon--a teeny part--but I loved
it--in "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" when I was
in High School." "What
few people know about me is I've walked across hot coals
and didn't get burned!" "That
because of my past as a little girl, always overshadowed
by her older brother, that even today I strive to have an
identity all my own--to be recognized." That the
silhouetted couple on the cover of my book Veiled
Hearts is actually me and my husband standing in our
kitchen. And yes, I added longer hair to my side of the
photo:-)" "Since
my husband doesn't know how to go online, I can tell you
how much I fantasize about Tom Selleck.:-)" "I can
clap with one hand! It's true. A few years
back, at a live comedy game show at The Top of the
Village Gate in NYC, I filled out a form to participate
in the show. I had to make up two lies and say one
true thing about myself, the general idea being to stump
the contestents. I wrote: "My father was a crown
prince." "The CIA did Psychic Experiments on
me" and "I can clap with one hand."
Naturally, I was selected from the audience and found
myself there on stage, in front of four hundred people,
clapping with one hand, much to my friend's amusement.
They still tease me about that night." Few people
know that I met my husband in a singles bar.
"If Superman and Godzilla got into a street fight (no weapons allowed), who would win?" "Godzilla,
of course. Superman's not the same since he let his
hair grow long." "If
Godzilla and Superman got into a street fight (no weapons
allowed), who would win? Neither - they'd go have a beer
together." "It
would be a draw. Then they would declare a truce, go out
for a beer, and discuss how best to save the rain
forest." "Superman.
Agility over bulk anyday." "A
street fight? Probably Godzilla. No scruples,
those hundred foot lizards…" "Superman!" "Superman,
because he wouldn't have to stop and pick pedestrians
from between his toes." "Hard
to say, for their powers seem evenly matched. However,
upon due consideration, <g> Probably Superman, in
the long run, 'cause speed counts, though, I have to say,
I think I'd be rooting for Godzilla." "Superman,
of course. He has brains along with his brawn." "Superman
for sure! Didn't you ever wonder what he keeps in his
shorts besides Kryptonite?" "This
is an easy one! Superman would win. He never
uses weapons anyway. I sort of picture him flying
into Godzilla's mouth, down into his chest cavity and
puncturing a lung! Superman is, after all, the man
of steel and could use his body like a bullet.
Though that is one thing that always bothered me about
the original Superman. Criminals would shoot him
five times and he'd just stand there. Then they'd
throw the gun at him and he'd duck. Go figure!
<G>" "Superman,
but then Spider-Man would promptly show up and kick his
butt." "It
depends on what street, which movie studio owns the
street, whether or not the movie studio owns the rights
to Superman or Godzilla and which character the focus
groups commisioned "I
have to believe Superman would win. He has to be tough to
wear those red tights." "I
think Superman would use his wit and charm to overpower
Godzilla, not by brute strength but by out-smarting
him." |
