title: Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper: Gifting the World with Your Words and Stories, and Creating the Time and Energy to Actually Do It
author:  Sark 
description: SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) is the bestselling author and artist of fifteen books, including the national bestsellers <i>Succulent Wild Woman, Bodacious Book of Succulence, Eat Mangoes Naked, Prosperity Pie</i>, and <i>Fabulous Friendship Festival</i>. She is an acclaimed speaker and teacher, and is the CEO and founder of Planet SARK, a thriving business that promotes empowered living. SARK lives in San Francisco; visit her at www.PlanetSARK.com.
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  Not that it Matters
  
  
  The Pleasure of Writing
  
  Acacia Road
  
  My Library
  
  The Chase
  
  Superstition
  
  The Charm of Golf
  
  Goldfish
  
  Saturday to Monday
  
  The Pond
  
  A Seventeenth-Century Story
  
  Our Learned Friends
  
  A Word for Autumn
  
  A Christmas Number
  
  No Flowers by Request
  
  The Unfairness of Things
  
  Daffodils
  
  A Household Book
  
  Lunch
  
  The Friend of Man
  
  The Diary Habit
  
  [Midsummer Day](Not%20that%20it%20Matters_split_001.html#filepos134064)
  
  [At the Bookstall](Not%20that%20it%20Matters_split_001.html#filepos140889)
  
  ["Who's Who"](Not%20that%20it%20Matters_split_001.html#filepos147644)
  
  [A Day at Lord's](Not%20that%20it%20Matters_split_001.html#filepos155453)
  
  [By the Sea](Not%20that%20it%20Matters_split_001.html#filepos161273)
  
  [Golden Fruit](Not%20that%20it%20Matters_split_001.html#filepos167335)
  
  [Signs of Character](Not%20that%20it%20Matters_split_001.html#filepos173202)
  
  [Intellectual
  Snobbery](Not%20that%20it%20Matters_split_001.htm