Category Archives: Good Girl Blog by Kim Shannon

Drum Roll please…..Ta Da!!!!
I am proud to reveal the current working cover of my latest creation, The Good Girl Addiction scheduled for publication in 2012 and destined to be a bestseller.
Do you like?
Dislike?
Does it intrigue you?
Would it stop you as you hustle down a Barnes & Noble aisle?
Would it make you pick it up [...]

While watching The Sing Off last week I heard a “word” I had never heard before. When hearing this slightly off-putting, slightly jarring yet highly expressive, highly sexual and in-your face “word” I immediately thought of Cleopatra. And since I had been in the process of writing (or trying to write) a post dedicated to [...]

Box living is cramped. It cramps your style, truth, and pizazz. I should know. I am a recovering box dweller. Truth be known, I used to live in a very organized warehouse full of boxes. Labeled with red sharpie, each box was crammed full of all the aspects of myself I didn’t like, find attractive, [...]

Eleven years ago today I arrived in San Francisco. I drove from Boulder in my little tiny Nissan (that in later years became affectionately known as the “beater”) with a super hot guy who I had met through friends. He needed to get to the Bay Area too. We took Route 66 and camped next [...]

At the Goring Hotel, Kate Middleton takes a moment for herself. She is dressed in white and lovely lace, her makeup and hair done to perfection. At her dressing table for one long, last, discerning look, she is comforted to see Princess Diana appear behind her.

This isn’t the first time the spirit of Diana has [...]

It is April. We have crossed the line from winter to spring and barring any last minute dumps of snow the crocuses, tulips, and daffodils will soon bloom.
I envy the buds sometimes. They get to take their time, go at their natural pace, live into themselves and blossom when they are ready. And they get [...]

Do your friends inspire you?
Mine do.
I have six girlfriends who each day make me smile, laugh, think and aspire to be bigger, better, greater, and simply more fabulous than I already am.
One is in LA today getting primped to go to the Oscars. She works for ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) and a little film [...]

How’s this for a story line?
A woman travels to Seattle with her husband to see the space needle only to get stuck in the neck by a fork, and thus ends up the ER. It’s revealed she was giving her husband some “attention” under the table in a fancy restaurant when her jaw suddenly clenched, [...]