Advice To My 20 Year Younger Self As the blog tour for Is This All There Is? winds down, I have so many people to thank (Samantha March for her outstanding blog tour organizing/promoting skills & kindness, all the bloggers who hosted me, friends who read and commented on tour stops). Is This All There Is? Blog Tour Page   Today was a very busy and exhausting day. I facilitated a leadership training program for a group of professionals I hold in the highest esteem for the work the...Read More

Patricia Mann on Oprah Do you have a bucket list? I found an old one that said I would be on the Oprah show before I die. But I found it in 2010, when Oprah announced that her show was ending. Read the story of how I actually made it happen on the fabulous Julie Valerie's blog: Oprah on My Bucket List by Patricia Mann and see the video of me on the Oprah show: Patricia Mann on the Oprah Winfrey Show Thanks!...Read More

My Diary Entry 6/12/89 In honor of celebrating my 20th wedding anniversary, I thought it would be fun to share my very first diary entry about my husband-to-be. I was twenty. He was eighteen. I had just finished my third year of college. He had just finished his first. I wrote the following in my diary 3 days after meeting him. I didn’t change anything except names. Major News! Friday night, we went to a fraternity party and a couple of the guys came over to the sorority house after. Rick...Read More

BIG NEWS:  I’m going on a book tour from August 5th to the 26th! And do you know what the best part of this worldwide book tour is? I get to do it all from the comfort of my very own home! Most of you are probably familiar with the concept of a blog tour, but for me, it’s a whole new world. I didn’t really understand what it is until the lovely ladies in the Chicklit Goddess Facebook group mentored me, as they have on many subjects. So I contacted a highly recommended blog tour org...Read More