Blog Posts for Gail Konop Baker

interviews, events, reviews oh my...

Gail Konop Baker — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:26:29 -0700

After four intense days taking our daughter to college and one day home to wash clothes and then 7 hours up to Madeline Island in Lake Superior and three days of outdoor bliss... running, kayaking, biking, sitting around the campfire until 3 am every night, I returned to my life in fast motion. Two interviews yesterday. Next week a photo shoot for a Madison based glossy magazine and another ...

please read this online review of my memoir to see why NOT to be afraid to read it!!

Gail Konop Baker — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:36:07 -0700

I know the word cancer scares people. It scares me. But that is part of the reason I wrote this memoir, to try to de-stigmatize cancer for other survivors. I believe it is one of the last standing taboos. But Katie Schwartz, who never had cancer and WAS afraid to read it, just wrote THE most amazingly insightful review of it... here. Please check it out and let me know what you think!! Thanks!

nyc trip and booklist and why I write

Gail Konop Baker — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:54:07 -0700

My trip to NYC to the Backspace conference was exciting and exhausting and a taste of what's to come in the months ahead. At yoga last night I was describing what it feels like to launch (pre-launch) a book to one of the yoga instructors and I said it was like getting married, giving birth and sending your oldest off to college all at the same time. All that intensity, all that passion, all that ...

I LOVE getting older

Gail Konop Baker — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:30:14 -0700

I had my 2 and a half year check-up on Tuesday and while I don't like getting MRI's, not only is it freaky to lie face down and get sucked into that narrow tube and feel ice-cold potentially poisonous contrast coursing through my veins and listen to that loud erratic avant-garde tap tap tapping but I also don't really like my insides so scrutinized because it scares me, worries me, ...

sex every day

Gail Konop Baker — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:51:39 -0700

A married couple I know told me (and several other couples at a cocktail party) that they have sex every day... sometimes twice a day or more. They are not newly married. They've been together for more than ten years. And if one of them travels they make up for it by doubling up. The woman kept saying, "What's the big deal? Why not? It's free. It's pleasurable. It's legal. It burns ...

look to the right

Gail Konop Baker — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:28:38 -0700

notice anything? It's my cover!! A cartoon of me. Weird? Cool? What do you think?

notes from 1999

Gail Konop Baker — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:42:07 -0700

I needed something to write on yesterday. Something other than my computer which has morphed into a devilish link to all sorts of juicy, distractable distractions that might respond to me now. Or in another second. How can I not keep clicking all my inboxes to see? So, no I wanted pen on paper. I wanted to sit in the one room without wireless and write like I used to, without any temptation to ...