Help, Please

First, I should tell you that I am about to blow you off so I can go watch the second season of The Office (American-style) with Steve. I think it is important that you know where our relationship stands right now, you and me.

Second, I am going to add indignity to insult by asking for your help, despite the blowing. I am writing an article (!) for a magazine (!!) and I need some help finding sources. Since the collective y'all always know everything, I thought I could save myself another fruitless 90 minutes in the nonfiction stacks of the library (Patrick scored two books on asteroids and a coffee table-sized book on Hanukkah traditions, so the trip was not a complete loss but still) and just ask you:

I need to talk with life coach/therapist/self-help author(es/s) in an effort to glean some insights for this piece I am doing. If you know anyone who fits the bill and who you think would consent to be interviewed by me, please post or shoot me an email and I will be eternally grateful. I might even be willing to bribe you, so add that to your considering factors. In the latter category of general self-help (with an eye, maybe, towards life affirmation stuff) do you have any recent book suggestions? I read 19th C fiction and what I do not know about anything after whalebone corsetry could fit into Almack's. You are, of course, free to post anything that occurs to you in the comments, but if you prefer more private communication my email is up there and I promise to treat your information with professionalism, courtesy and respect.

Third, because I DO take your advice so literally I am volunteering at Patrick's school tomorrow. I am looking forward to it. New posts from me all over the place, I hope, at some point tomorrow and Friday. And holy cow! Did I tell you that Steve's birth half-brothers came to visit us for the weekend from New England? Remind me. I'll tell you about that.      

Comments

[Professordog]

You and your family are in my thoughts, Julia.

[leslie]

Hoping that your uterus settles right down so you and the 13s can have many more weeks before they make their entrance!

[dawn in ky]

Oh Julia please be home and doing well!!! Thirteen's you are on royal command to STAY PUT!!! Praying for all thee of you!!
Dawn in ky

[Pat]

THIRTEENS! THIRTEENS! THIRTEENS!
c'mon babies, you can stand being inside Mommy for a few more weeks...

Julia, hope you're home and taking it easy today.

[Kim]

Praying that the worst thing you have to endure right now is a long hospital bedrest. Stay put, babies! Stay put!

[dee]

Wishing the very, very best for you and the twins! I'm brewing twins right along the same gestation time table as you and follow your words religiously. Here's hoping all those babies stay put to see (through uterine walls, of course) the first day of Winter!

[L]

Good luck. I hope the 13s will stay put more a few more months, the ctxs will calm down and you get to go home soon.

[Cris]

I love this list of suggestions and hate the reason it was requested. Nothing depressing is right! Do you know someone brought my sister the book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" after she was into the Psych Ward? Definitely not the book for someone who might harm themselves.

I second G. Heyer (I always reach for The Reluctant Widow, Frederica, Talisman Ring, Beauvallet, and The Grand Sophy), Jennifer Crusie, Dorothy L. Sayers (with Harriet Vane in them - the others are a little dry). Early Carla Kelly books are funny and great (very well written Regencies). Check the descriptions on the later date ones - they get more, hmmm, wouldn't say 'depressing' but the issues are difficult. Love the "Born In ..." series by Nora Roberts (Born in Fire, Born in Ice, Born in Shame). Have you re-read Tristram Shandy lately?

Stay babies! Stay!

[AussieAndrea]

Dunno if it's too late, but the chick who writes Ask Joey at Sacramento News and Review...
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=574147

[aelial]

i am reading two barbara sher books at the same time right now.