I'm a journalist and award-winning writer, who has written for such print venues as Rolling Stone, GQ, InStyle, Self, American Way, Premiere, and Mirabella. In 2002, I became an early blogger, chronicling my husband's and my great adventure of selling our house in Arkansas, putting everything in storage, and uprooting ourselves to France into an online series and book called "Jours Of Our Lives, which is a companion book for his volume Chasing Matisse. We lived in France for 10 years.

I was a regular blogger for The Huffington Post, and I've written for Salon.com, Vogue.com, and others. My prime journalistic topics are culture, travel, art, politics, and people. My online commentary has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, The Hotline, Der Spiegel, BuzzFlash, The Satirical Political Report, Daily Kos, AlterNet, Democratic Underground, PoynterOnline, and USA Today. "Black Entertainment Television--BET--used my video of election night in Paris during President Barack Obama's inauguration.

I was a finalist for a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe (for a novel) and a semi-finalist for a Nicholl Fellowship (screenplay) through the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. My work has been recognized for its excellence by my peers: betharnold.com was named Political Blog of the Week on Blog Catalog during the 2008 election. I was also included in one of the most prestigious books on the blogging phenomenon, Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging (Simon & Schuster, 2008). In 2007, I contributed a chapter on Living in France to the book "Retirement Without Borders" (Scribner, 2008). I also put myself in internet rehab on a beautiful Greek island for a month and wrote "28 days without the internet."

My book "Jours of Our Lives" about moving to France was published last year and an e-book and audiobook of it are in the works.

At present, I am reinventing my website that will include rebranding and working on a new column. Among the projects I'm involved in: a book about my 3 1/2 month retreat in India and subsequent two months in Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. Other projects concern my life in France, rediscovering the USA, and being basically kidnapped by a taxi driver in Bangkok.