Congratulations Paul and Nancy
According to the London Daily Mail, Paul McCartney and his girlfriend Nancy Shevell are engaged. "The 68-year-old musician started dating the 51-year-old New York businesswoman in the summer of 2007 - a year before his high profile divorce with Heather Mills was finalized." "Despite the 17 year age difference, friends have described the pair as the 'perfect couple' with one source telling People.com: 'They have the right chemistry.' "Stella McCartney, the Beatle legend's daughter from his first marriage to Linda, is said to be 'absolutely thrilled' for her father." "The news comes three years after McCartney's very public divorce from Heather Mills, which ended in a messy High Court battle." "Paul met Nancy in the The Hamptons in New York and both said to share the same 'chilled and optimistic' outlook on life." "Nancy, the vice president of a family-owned transportation conglomerate, also gets on fabulously with Paul's five children. He had four children with with Linda - who died of breast cancer in 1998 - Heather, 48, Mary, 41, Stella, 39 and James, 33." "He was married to Linda McCartney from 1969 until her death from breast cancer in 1998." "He then married Mills, a former model and philanthropist, in 2002."
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Wishful Thinking
Once again, Paul McCartney has failed to propose to me.Of course, he doesn't know me, so I can't really blame him.
Still, reading the news earlier today that after the death of his beloved first wife, Linda, and a ridiculous marriage to his second wife, the opportunistic Heather Mills, the former Beatle will be saying "I do," to New York MTA board member Nancy Shevell (whom everyone seems to like), made my heart go all a-flutter.
I couldn't help it. Somewhere inside me, the almost-eight-year-old who watched The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show back in 1964, whimpered a bit.
Best-selling spirituality author Starhawk wrote some years ago that there were limits to the notion that we can make anything we envision come true. The proof of that, she so brilliantly offered, was that millions of her contemporaries who'd wished otherwise had NOT married any of The Beatles.
Back in the '90s, I covered science, health, and alternative medicine for Omni and many other magazines and newspapers, and I was the Founding Editor of Deepak Chopra's health newsletter, Infinite Possibilities.
All of that gave me the opportunity to interview many scientists, doctors, and other experts, many of whom had written serious, fluff-free books in an era before publishers dumbed-down their offerings on such matters because they incorrectly thought they had to for mainstream readers.
The serious study of metaphysics and spirituality was woven into many of these '90s science and health books. In fact, whenever I was asked who were the most spiritually-inclined people I'd interviewed, I always answered: "The scientists -- because their work is entirely about confronting the mysteries of life and they're in awe of that."
When I interviewed physicist and best-selling author Michio Kaku, we pondered time travel, parallel universes, and "extra" dimensions. Astronaut Story Musgrave, who is also a physician and a poet, wanted to talk most about his spiritual approach to space travel. Neuroscientist Deborah Mash approached her work from a metaphysical perspective that led her to scientific, medical breakthroughs in understanding and treating addiction.
I interviewed doctors and medical intuitives; biologists and shamans; scientists and philosophers; rabbis, priests, nuns, and pagans...
Believe me, if there had been a way to conjure up a marriage proposal from Paul McCartney, I would've found it.
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As a journalist, columnist, essayist, and media critic, Nina L. Diamond's work has appeared in many publications, including Omni magazine, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and The Miami Herald.
She was a regular contributor to a number of "late, great" national, regional, and newspaper Sunday magazines, including Omni; the award-winning South Florida magazine; and Sunshine, the Ft. Lauderdale (now South Florida) Sun-Sentinel's Sunday magazine.
She covers the arts and sciences; the media, publishing, and current affairs; and writes feature articles, interviews, commentary, humor/satire/parody, essays, and reviews.
Ms. Diamond is also the author of Voices of Truth: Conversations with Scientists, Thinkers & Healers (Lotus Press) and the unfortunately titled Purify Your Body (Three Rivers Press/Crown/Random House) , a book of natural health reporting which has been a selection of The Book-of-the-Month Club's One Spirit Book Club and the Quality Paperback Book Club.
For its entire run from 1984-1998, she was a writer and performer on Pandemonium, the National Public Radio (NPR) satirical humor program, which aired on WLRN-FM in Miami.
She has appeared on Oprah, discussing the publishing industry, but, in a case of very bad timing, that appearance was two years before her first book was published.
She has written her Much Ado About Publishing column for Independent Publisher since 2003.
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Read some of Nina's previous Much Ado About Publishing columns:
Apocalypse Fatigue
When Only the Story Survives
Authors Uncovered
Choosing Crazy
The Nice Guy Behind Evil Wylie: A Conversation with Andrew Shaffer
De-Witched, Authored & Remaindered
Moron Press: The Finest in Dreck Lit
Playing 20 Questions with Evil Wylie
When LOL Meets PPF
Sunday in the Park with Scarlett, Seuss, Webster, Zhivago & Salinger
There's No Such Thing As a Quick Remote
Thanks for the Genes
From Blog to Eternity