you are beautiful.

Post date: Sep 24, 2011 4:24:57 AM

Don't believe me? Ask anyone who loves you. That's how I started out my first national article.  See? There it is! Right under the magazine title! Right in the soft spot of Jill Kargman's right wrist! Do you KNOW how many words she's typed with that wrist? How many novels?If you click on her website to find out, you'll learn that, as natural a beauty as she is, she worships Nine Inch Nails and Audioslave and is as hip as can be.But I digress. I looooved writing this article, which came out this summer in Natural Solutions magazine . I had to interview two experts. So I asked the two doctors who have influenced me most in my lifetime: Dr. Louise Hart Ed.D. ("Don't compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides,”) and Dr. Jan Baumgardner MD ("Never eat, drink, or apply to your body anything you see advertised on television or in the national mainstream media.”) — my paradocs, my parents.I didn't know if I'd get away with it! They fact-checked my document and called both doctors to see if they'd actually said those wacky things. (Can you belieeeve they printed my dad's quote? What will their advertisers think! NatSol was called Alternative Medicine until just a few years ago, so maybe they didn't take it personally.) I thought for sure they'd click through all the links on my web page and figure out my last name, figure out I wrote books with my mom... ha ha, like they had time... but even if they did, they didn't care!It's a pretty funny article, if I say so myself. Go ahead and read it. And comment. Thanks, you're beautiful!Update to this article: The glory of being nationally published faded slightly after they spelled my name wrong in the byline. It faded even more so after a year of invoicing, calling, begging (but never bullying) to be paid. Trying not to take it personally.