Nat has a new book of her own out right now–The Bubbly Bride, released in November.  It’s a cocktail book, and according to a recent LA Times review, the cocktails alone are motivation enough to inspire a marriage. This reviewer must be even more of a lush than I am.

Congratulations Natalie. Everyone else, buy that bubble-icious book right this minute!

In that spirit…here’s an E! Channel clip from back in October. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blh3do0GVQk

ALSO make sure and come by  my workshop 3:30-5PM, “A Sense of Place.” It is FREE and in it, I will tell you exactly how to get out of your office job and have the coolest/funnest/travelingest job in the world. Yes, I’ll even tell you how to get to the point where you can make up your own words.  (It takes years and lots of skillz, but it can be done.)

Here’s the link to the Fair. (In case  you’re wondering, the worshop is in the Writing Room.)

Also,  Orbitz blogged about it because they are RAD.

And, That Morning Show also plugged it because they are seeming to be pretty rad too!

I hope to see you there!

I talked about wine country travel. In particular, Napa, Paso Robles and the wonderful Eastern Canadian province of Quebec. I didn’t get to talk about nearly as much as I wanted to, so I also gave ‘em a whole supplemental blog with hotel picks and wineries and whatnot. Hopefully they will post.

I will have a clip soon. Don’t u worry…

http://vacation.away.com/plan-a-trip/best-resorts-and-lodges-sp.html

(As I’ve told many a PR who ought to know without asking, since my portion was All-Inclusives, you simply click on that link to see the property list. Then click on the property name to read the review. If you’re having a hard time believing that there is a publicist on the planet who can’t figure that out in the year 2009, then I’m right there with ya.)

Reuters was much more efficient in spreading the word about this fabulous new effort of Away’s than I was. The newswire service posted the official release last week, right here.

All the resorts in this feature were obviously gorgeous and posh, but the ones that won the congeniality award (for being nice to work with)…I would say Curtain Bluff (even though Antigua has a ways to go), La Source, Hacienda Tres Rios (gold star!) and Grand Velas.  The Wyoming property was cool, too, but it was such a brief encounter, my mind is dim.  Oh, and the Paradisus Guanacaste. It’s a Costa Rican property, and therefore charming in such extremes that you just want to hug everyone you meet.

(Teaser: I just finished another three sections for an upcoming Brides travel section which will go unnamed for now…stay tuned for more details.)

(Disclaimer: My version suggested a free tour of historic churches, ending in the town square. NOT a once-a-week paid walking tour of private homes. I think a new editor slipped that in there so she could feel she’d made her mark.)

Thanks to my editor Abigail for giving me the slot at the 11th hour, so I could alert LA locals to the parks’ budgetary situation and showcase some of the landmarks on the closure list. All of them are still in danger of closing within the next couple of years,  thanks to the incompetent machinations of our state government & bureaucracy.

Curacao — This super-colorful Caribbean island deserves a column of its very own, IMHO.

 Los Angeles — Lots of restaurants and bars opening in LA this summer. I did a roundup to cover as many as possible.

Hawaii — Beaches, beaches, beaches of summer. And still a thousand more to go…