Hey Everybody!

So, I write today from beautiful Montreal where the temperature is in the low single digits but everybody here thinks it’s just so fair and lovely. And I guess it is. I’ve had a great time here on the radio at CJAD and at Chapters Bookstore and then over in Ottawa where I saw the gorgeous capitol buildings and had a great signing at their Chapters Bookstore and did a wonderful talk at a private get-together at Rabbi Barry Schlesinger’s house. So many interesting people that I’ve met! It’s been a total treat. Leaving today to fly to Boston and then on to Connecticut. One talk at Eitz Chayim in Massachusetts in the morning of the 17th for anybody who will be around!

Happy New Year from Jerusalem! Over here we have just gotten through a huge storm that brought high winds, heavy rain, sleet and snow. It knocked down some trees and caused some other minor problems but the kids here had a snow day for the first time in years and the morning of the fourth day of this storm brought not just snow but also a lovely peaceful stillness that is so rare here. It was glorious!

Planning is well underway for the March book tour that begins on the 5th. I’ll be in Chicago, the east coast of the States and then up in Canada in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Should be great! Look for more details in the coming week!

Well, this third tour was just amazing! Such great people, awesome speaking gigs, great adventures everywhere I went. Forgetting about the hurricane and the confusion and aggravation (not to mention delays) that it also spawned, the tour was a real success. I learned so much about speaking and my amazing marketing team is getting more efficient and more ‘out there’ every day. This book seems to be able to touch so many people and it has proved to be an extraordinary blessing to me. And the planning for the next tour is already underway! Send your comments here! If you would like me to be a speaker at your church or synagogue or women’s group or bookstore or book club or whatever, just write! If you know someone who has read the book and might like to have me come on over in March (in North America March 5-19), WRITE ME! In the meantime, spread the word. Life is short, guys. Making and maintaining meaningful life changes matters!!

“How Everything Changed” received a wonderful review in the magazine section of the Jerusalem Post—you can read the review online if you have a subscription to the Post and shortly the review will be added to this website as well!

Well, it’s just about time to head off to North America for the next book tour! I leave on the 18th of October and fly to Chicago where I’ll speak at a Sisterhood meeting and possibly at a Chabad House as well. And naturally there will be time for visiting with family and soaking up some of the great vibe from the best city in America! Then it’s off to the east coast where I’ll be speaking at another Sisterhood event in New York. In Canada next, to a wonderful Reform Shul, Har Zion, outside of Toronto and then to Montreal for a series of events. So, here are the dates: Chicago 0ctober 18-22; East Coast 22-26; Toronto 26-27; Montreal October 27-31. If you’d like to set up a speaking engagement/book signing for my next tour, set to begin March 5, 2013, just write me here!

Big news — “How Everything Changed” will be reviewed in the Jerusalem Post! The interview, by one of the Post’s senior editors, was yesterday and I think it went well. The questions were thoughtful and interesting and I think the article (he also asked me for a picture of myself to go with the interview/review!) should be great. It’s so hard to get the word out when you’re a new author but I believe so much in this book and in its message and I believe that if I work hard and I have good people with me (and I have the best marketing people in the world putting together the tour that starts on the 18th of October) then good things will happen! Hey—if you’re reading this blog and you like what you see, TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!!! No harm in having a little conversation going on over here. This is Israel, after all, where conversation and arguing are (as yet unrecognized) olympic sports!

Hey Everybody! It’s been a while since I’ve been on but I figured it was time to get back and say hello and wish everybody a great summer! The Olympics are on and so is the planning for the next book tour which is scheduled for October 18-31. I’ll start out in Chicago and then go to the East Coast and finally on to Canada. A little later on, when all of my sites are confirmed, I’ll list them all here so that you can stop by and say hello!

Why is the Quiz part of this website? Well, so that you all can take the quiz of course and see how you are doing! Although this quiz isn’t hard science (which means there are no statistics on its validity and reliability right now) taking it and then adding up your score and reading about what your score means can help you see how you’re doing and whether or not you need to make some changes in your life. Nobody’s life is perfect of course but what if, when you take the quiz, you find that really, your life isn’t as happy or as powerful and authentic as you’d like it to be? Why not design your life more powerfully? If you find that you’re feeling out of touch, as if your life has gone off the path you’d intended, why not do a little self-inspection and see what you can improve? All of us can afford to spend a little time, once in a while, doing this sort of examination—think of how much time you spend on things like dusting, on rearranging your furniture, one cleaning your kitchen! These things take up so much of our time and they are intended to make us feel better, more in control, happier, more together. What if you spent a little bit of time doing this sort of “spring cleaning” with yourself? What would you find out? What would you want to change?

Great news! My flights to and from North America for the next tour in October are booked! I arrive in Chicago on the 18th of October and depart from JFK on the first of November! Ready for the next step!

Well, I”m back from a really terrific book tour! Although I’d gone to the States last August to launch the book, this was really my first genuine outing as an author. It was excellent—thanks to all the hard work put in my my fantastic friend Debbie in Montreal (who arranged all four sites for me not to mention putting me up at her house, taking me back and forth from the airport and taking me around her beautiful island city) and to my marketing agent, Larry. Two radio shows, three synagogue appearances and a bookstore signing event later, I’m already at work on the next tour for this October! Stay tuned and hey! Write in!