A Dare to be Fabulous book is coming in Summer, 2022!
Over the years, the Dare to be Fabulous website grew to feature 40+ personal stories from women on all walks of life. A selection of those stories is now … read more...
Category: DTBF Blog
A Bossy Massage and Some Truth Telling
This guest post comes from story coach Cara Jones.
Have you ever found yourself lucky enough to get a long awaited massage, only to then find yourself lying there feeling just subtly agitated or unsatisfied by the pressure or music … read more...
Freewriting exercises during the month of May
If ever there was an ideal time to invoke the spirit of daring to be fabulous, this is it. Nothing like a pandemic to strike the fear in all of us and rattle our ways of life.
How are you … read more...
Climbing Everest was NOT one of the greatest days of her life
As of today, eleven people have died climbing Everest in 2019, making this one of the deadliest climbing seasons in Everest’s history. Previously, a high number of deaths in one season was because of weather or onetime incidents, but the … read more...
An extremely shy TV news anchor shares her personal story
Wendy Tokuda worked as a primetime anchor in local television news for almost 40 years. She anchored the news in Seattle, Los Angeles, and for the majority of her career, in San Francisco. She was also the first Asian American … read more...
DTBF stories are back for your reading pleasure
Greetings! It’s been a while. How is everyone? Are you daring to be fabulous? I hope so.
I wanted to let you know that the Dare to be Fabulous website is back! Check out the Stories page to peruse through … read more...
Raising brave girls TED talk by DTBF contributor Caroline Paul
Have you read Caroline Paul’s DTBF story, “Where there’s Smoke, there’s Fire”? In this story, Paul shares what it was like to be one of the first female firefighters in the San Francisco Fire Department. (She was the 15th … read more...
Join me for book reading Saturday in Alameda
As many of you know, in addition to being the editor of Dare to be Fabulous, I am also the editor of my mother’s newly published memoir, Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant: Undercover & Overwhelmed as a CIA Wife … read more...
DTBF in a TV comedy writers’ room
Dare to be Fabulous has posted a new featured story for your reading enjoyment! This one comes from Ali Rushfield, who shares her personal experience of working in the writers’ rooms of several top-rated TV comedy series. An excerpt:
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Gutsy Girls
Our new featured story comes from author and adventurer Caroline Paul. It’s her story about what it was like to be one of the first female firefighters in the San Francisco Fire Department.
Read DTBF’s newly featured story: “WHERE THERE’S … read more...