A Pizzazz Magazine Exclusive

Publisher Don Lemmon

Pizzazz Magazine: First of all, what is a day in your shoes like? What do you do from waking to hitting the hay each day?

Corine San Crainte: My typical day starts at 5 AM with 30 minutes of meditation, I then turn on my computer while my tea water is boiling and answer some emails or jot down a mantra or thought that may have come to me while meditating. I will go for a walk, maybe pick mushrooms on the way or just enjoy the wildlife. Daily, I tend my organic garden for a couple of hours, which is always relaxing to and where I work on problems that may be troubling me. I usually snack through out the day on numerous small meals instead of limiting big meals a day and at least once a week I attend a workshop on something that interests me. The rest of the week or day I will surf the Internet, chat with friends, catch up on correspondence, etc. Early evening, around dusk, I like to sit and write. The setting sun always inspires me. Then it's time for yoga or pilates before my evening meal, followed by some more meditation then bed.

Pizzazz Magazine: What would you say is the highlight of your life so far and how does it compare to your overall goals?

Corine San Crainte: I don't think I've achieved the highlight of my life yet. I'm always striving to do better and to achieve more. I think it will be on my death bed when I would be better able to answer this question.

Pizzazz Magazine: Who was the first person to tell you getting into what you are known for was a crazy idea? At what point did you agree (even if it was momentarily)?

Corine San Crainte: My mother; I agree with her almost completely!

Pizzazz Magazine: Have you made contacts using the internet that you know you wouldn't have if it weren't for the web being so accessible?

Corine San Crainte: I have contacts and friends all over the world thanks to the Internet. I have recently exchanged recipes with a woman in Flaach, Switzerland while doing research via the Internet. I have met a second cousin by chance and she is now one of my closest confidants and of course I would have never chatted with you without the web. It amazes me how much information one can glean from the web and who you can chat with just by clicking a button.

Pizzazz Magazine: Funny how it usually works. We grow up wanting to be firefighters or nurses, then due to the glory of media, rock stars, actors, etc. and then reality sits in... We end up being ourselves... Good or bad... What's your story?

Corine San Crainte: My dream as a young child was to be a Princess, but alas, I couldn't find a Prince that would have me so here I am.

Pizzazz Magazine: What one thing haven't you done you would still like to?

Corine San Crainte: Scuba Dive - Learning to Scuba Dive within the next year is a new goal of mine. I think viewing the underwater world could be one of the most enlightening experiences of my life. Being one with nature can lead a person along a spiritual path that I hope can't ever be experienced through the teachings of a church or from organized religion.

Pizzazz Magazine: Tell me one of the negative aspects of your field that everyone needs to know. Do not say there are none! The biggest lie about your work is:

Corine San Crainte: The negative aspects: writers block; and keeping a positive and uplifting message on the days I am in a dark mood and meeting deadlines.

Pizzazz Magazine: What are your 5 favorite or most frequently visited websites?

Corine San Crainte: www.msn.com to check my horoscope, www.pizzazz.com which is a great magazine, www.asiacarrera.com hosted by another very beautiful and intelligent woman, www.venusorvixen.com for erotic stories, www.liesandpropaganda.com to catch up on the message boards and www.basisofbeing.com but that makes 6...

Pizzazz Magazine: Tell me something people do not realize about you, maybe it's not a secret, maybe it's not anything special, but it is something no one else has ever asked you about until now. What's boring to you is news to everyone else...

Corine San Crainte: My love of old European literature or maybe that I daydream about living in another time often.

Pizzazz Magazine: What's the craziest thing you have experienced in your work? Maybe it's something you witnessed and didn't participate in, but what would shock us, make us laugh or show us another side to things besides the obvious...

Corine San Crainte: I had been doing some research regarding inner peace and it's impact on one's overall spirituality on various message boards and was amazed how people believe their sexual experiences are a crutch, for lack of a better term, in finding harmony. Sex is a treasured experience, not a crutch.

Pizzazz Magazine: Anything embarrassing happen when YOU were trying to look cool? What? Embarrassing and crazy are different things!

Corine San Crainte: When trying to look cool, no, but I was reading to some children at the library one cold wintery day and I didn't realize I had something hanging from my nose until one of the little boys pointed it out. I had never been so red faced in my life before that moment.

Pizzazz Magazine: Tell us a few sites that friends of yours own that would appreciate a plug:

Corine San Crainte: I actually was fascinated with one of the Lies & Propaganda message board members physique transformation so I am going to plug his site here: www.extremecanadianfitness.com

Pizzazz Magazine: The biggest PLUS FACTOR about your line of business is:

Corine San Crainte: The fact that I can remain anonymous and do what I love to do.

Pizzazz Magazine: Did the people around you change when you went out looking to succeed in this field? Sometimes those who weren't so supportive in the beginning, suddenly become supportive or possibly vice versa; they became thorns in your side....

Corine San Crainte: I am a very private person. I tend to keep to myself and I don't advertise what I do, most of my neighbors think I am nothing more than an eccentric health nut. My family wasn't very supportive in the beginning but are now. Maybe they were afraid they would have to support a starving artist.

Pizzazz Magazine: What question makes you crazy whenever asked and hopefully saying so here will prevent it from being asked again?

Corine San Crainte: Do you believe in what you write? Well, I wouldn't write it if it didn't move me in some way, so yes.

Pizzazz Magazine: Who do you see on TV, in film or hear on the radio that just makes you wonder how in the hell they got where they are?

Corine San Crainte: Michael Moore

Pizzazz Magazine: Tell me a joke!

Corine San Crainte: The jokes I know are my closest friends, I am just kidding.

Pizzazz Magazine: What music group do you listen to most often and what is their best album?

Corine San Crainte: I listen to a variety of music but you would find Celtic music in my CD player most of the time.

Pizzazz Magazine: Who should hang up their hat in your business? Why?

Corine San Crainte: It isn't my place to judge others or their work. Judging others would be putting myself above them and I am not above anyone. I try to treat others as I would want to be treated, if more people applied this one rule in their daily lives the world would be a much better place.

Pizzazz Magazine: Tell me your favorite movie genre, name a few titles, think video rental or dvd's you own and watch the most:

Corine San Crainte: I love action flicks because I know they aren't real or a good comedy to "get away" mentally and anything that Mel Gibson stars I'm sure to watch. I'm not into love stories, "chick flicks" or thought provoking movies. When I watch a movie I don't want to think, hence the escapism of the shoot 'em up, car smashing, action flicks.

Pizzazz Magazine: What TV show do you miss from childhood... I used to love Land of the Giants and Dance Fever (kidding on that one)....

Corine San Crainte: Mr. Ed

Pizzazz Magazine: Ever had someone from your past try and track you down and bug the tar out of you? I know this seems like the same questions as, "did people change" but it isn't meant to be.... Maybe we can put a little tact in people's future efforts here...

Corine San Crainte: No, that is the beauty of having a pen name.

Pizzazz Magazine: If you were anyone besides yourself, who would you be (even for just a day, on a good day, of course) and did you emulate them growing up or is this a recent admiration you have acquired?

Corine San Crainte: I would love to be a child young enough to have that innocence again allowing myself to wonder and hold onto my fascinations. Young children embody all that is good and right, they have an inner spirituality or "enlightenment" that we lose as we grow old. I want to recognize this for as long as I live.

Pizzazz Magazine: Who in your business would you like to say, "Hey, remember the time someone hooked you up and now look where you are? How about hooking me up with... (blank)?" Insert the BLANK....

Corine San Crainte: Don Lemmon, hook me up with some of your supplements!

Pizzazz Magazine: What did we forget?

Corine San Crainte: My favorite color, which I am not going to tell you. I think you covered it all besides that one thing.

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