While the rest of the nation has been buried in bad weather this past week, I was cavorting in the sun and warm temps. I was in Vegas the first half of the week to speak at a conference. I always love heading back to Vegas, as it’s one of my favorite places I’ve lived. Plus, that’s where Flapjack was born, so it’s a sentimental destination for me.

On Wednesday, I came to L.A. I came to visit Anna and my brother (which, by the way, I always misspell as “bother,” such an obvious — yet fitting — slip). But I also came to talk business with my lovely friend Kadi. We’ve been working on a project together, and we had an meeting with someone about some ideas we’ve had and how we can take things further. The meeting went better than I imagined it could.

Oh yeah, and it’s in the 70s and sunny here. Life is good.

But all this traveling and work hasn’t left me much time to blog. I have, however, still been doing some writing. In fact, I just wrote a lesson for the prestigious Southern Girl Academy. I suggest you go read it. And I suggest you do what I say. And I suggest that in my absence, you catch up on all the other SGA posts and bookmark the site or add it to your feed.

Bye for now!

I regularly daydream about moving to southern California. I miss living in a desert and I miss the mountains. I have family there, and also friends. And I’m slightly addicted to Los Angeles.

Another reason I love SoCal is that it has such a vibrant and active blogging and social media community. I’ve been fortunate enough to connect with, and meet in real life, some of the awesome women in that community. One of those women is the gorgeous and funny Stefanie, who writes at Ooph.

This week, Stefanie’s doing a series on body image, and she asked me to write a guest post. I almost didn’t post about it here, becuase it’s kind of a touchy subject for me, but I decided I would like your take on the subject. What do you think — can a bad body image be a good thing?