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The day before yesterday I launched my third book. I'm still on a high from all the support I received.  Ironically, I called my second book my first never giving myself credit for my first, the guidebook I wrote for my students.  Isn't that undermining? Why do we as artists inflict our own injuries? It's a form of denial and sabotage. Last month I attended the Book Publicists of Southern California meeting.  Michael Levine, celebrity Publicist and author of PR Guerrilla said, "Why would anyone write a book and not market it?   That's insane.  Writers have an obligation to promote themselves.  Toot your horn." he insisted.  So with that,  I'm giving you a short summary of my third, not my second book.  Echoes Amongst Us, a whirlwind journey of dreams and lofty ideals.  It speaks to women with creative and romantic impulses who question love within the context of social norms.   Echoes Amongst Us is a memoir...

Writer Lionel Menuhin Rolfe with pal Oliver in 2010, both gone now. Here we are again, down to the last page of another year's calendar. Time to celebrate the holidays - and think about what I've done, if anything, to make my 2018 worthwhile.  I know. It's been a long while since we relied on actual calendars - although I love them. Like maps, they've been swallowed up by our smartphones. But whether marked on 4-color glossy paper or digital screens, it's still a long way from May to December, as the Noel Coward song goes. The chill rainy dawning of this December strikes me as particularly poignant given the recent death of a long-time friend and esteemed colleague,  Lionel Menuhin Rolfe , He passed away on November 6 in a Glendale, California medical facility, at age 76, of a heart attack after many months of complications from diabetes, a stroke and painful infections following a fall. Lionel was prolific author, essayist, raconteur, outspoken leftis...