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...does that work out? It's great because we can both plan our time around our kids and what they're doing. If I need him to be home, for example, because I'm going on a book tour on Tuesday for a full month, I know he can be here to take the kids wherever they need to go and he can work out of the house if he needs...
...enjoy the official parts of being an author? Going out and meeting people? I actually do like it. I think I'm at the point where I probably don't have to tour. My books, I imagine, would sell okay even if I weren't out there hawking them. But on the other hand, that's the part that you don't get from a list of sales figures on a page. When you go on tour, you get to meet the people who are actually reading your books. You get to hear their stories about how [your] books affected...
...again, if you really, really want to do it, if you really, really want to write, you will. Even now the kids still come first. I have managed to fly almost 24 hours straight in order to be home for a school play. I geared my entire book tour this year around an acappella concert. And you manage to do what you have to do in order to still be a good mom and be a good writer...
...heat and visit any number of Cartagena's cultural gems - from the stunning Museo de Oro (Gold Museum, at Plaza Bolívar) and Museo de Arte Moderno (Museum of Modern Art, right off la Plaza de San Pedro) to the Cathedral, which offers an exhaustively comprehensive audio tour for $8. (I gave up after about 15 minutes.) There's also the delightfully twisted Palacio de la Inquisición, which, despite its grand name, is a tiny museum that features some of the many torture devices used to elicit confessions of witchcraft. A 15-minute cab ride away, there...
Walk with Me. If you let your gym membership run out, but still want to break a sweat, Country Walkers offers hiking tours of destinations worldwide, including an eight-day romp through tropical rainforests and alongside volcanoes in Costa Rica (starting at $3,398); a week's trip to Mexico, including a horseback ride along a Baja beach and a stay in a 19th-century hacienda (starting at $3,198); a nine-day tour of the coast of Greece, exploring Roman mosaics and Byzantine churches (starting...