Peggy van Hulsteyn
author and life style writer
Peggy is affectionately known as The Hat Lady.
My Background
My Books
I am the author of ten books of both fiction and non-fiction. During my career, I have written for: Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Modern Bride, Country Living, New Mexico Magazine, American Way, and newspapers such as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, and USA Today. While at Mademoiselle, in New York City, I was assistant travel editor, and during a brief stint in Atlanta, I was the southeastern director of publicity for American International Pictures. I owned an award-winning advertising agency in Austin and was an advertising lecturer at the University of Texas. I won the Southwest Writers Workshop Storyteller Award for Best Novel for The Art of Murder and was awarded first place for nonfiction by the New Mexico Press Women for my book Mind Your Own Business. My work has appeared in Australian periodicals and been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese.
I’ve been a yoga practitioner for over 40 years, and in 2000 was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Subsequently, I wrote a feature article describing the benefits of Yoga for people with Parkinson’s which was presented in both the American and Chinese versions of Yoga Journal and received a rousing response from around the world. Inspired by that success, I wrote the book Yoga and Parkinson’s Disease which appeared on the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s recommended reading list and which the CEO of the National Parkinson’s Foundation called “a must read.”
I attended the University of Missouri Journalism School and hold a degree in English and journalism from Indiana University. I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with my physicist husband David.
The Art of Murder
Yoga and Parkinson’s Disease
The Kitten Invasion
Vanity in Washington
Diary of a Santa Fe Cat
Sleeping with Literary Lions
The Birder’s Guide to Bed and Breakfasts
What Every Business Woman Needs To Know
To Get Ahead
Mind Your Own Business
Worlds collide in colorful northern New Mexico when two prominent Santa Feans, an outspoken, passionate environmentalist and a glamorous gallery owner, internationally known and reviled, die under mysterious circumstances. A connection, perhaps, to an infamous physicist and an opportunistic New Mexico senator implicated in an international scheme?
Thomas Wolfe may have said it first, but award-winning investigative journalist Mickey Moskowitz strongly agrees: you just can’t go home again. Nonetheless, she flies back to Santa Fe from New York City to investigate the death of her beloved sister Melissa and re-evaluates the life she left behind for the glamour of Gotham. Ever the savvy one, she uses her wit and courage and, as she has done her whole life, asks herself, what would Nancy Drew do?
Just as every Nancy needs her Bess and every Sherlock needs his Watson, she has Lupita, a fiery district attorney in three-inch heels who’s as skilled making chile cheese enchiladas as she is prosecuting challenging crimes. Mickey’s paramour and ad hoc sleuth is Berg, a charming physicist and foodie. Added to the mix is a cast of eccentric characters that in any other American town would be carted off to the home for the bewildered. Peggy van Hulsteyn knows this world (“I didn’t have to make anything up--I just looked out the window!”) and has written about The City Different in The Art of Murder, this smart, engaging, and funny novel for readers who love Santa Fe and a good whodunit.
Ease stiffness, improve strength and balance, and relieve stress with gentle, easy yoga postures.
Yoga is one of the most beneficial complementary therapies for Parkinsonís disease (PD), helping to increase flexibility, correct posture, loosen tight, painful muscles, build confidence, and in general, enhance the quality of life. Peggy van Hulsteyn, who was diagnosed with PD in 2000, has experienced these benefits firsthand. In Yoga and Parkinson's Disease, van Hulsteyn draws on her 40-year yoga practice, collaborating with two certified yoga teachers to provide an accessible, easy-to-follow, and encouraging guide for bringing the benefits of yoga into your life, even if you've never done yoga before.
Yoga and Parkinson’s Disease includes:
Step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow photographs
Seated and assisted postures for those with limited mobility and unsteadiness
Postures that can be done in bed to help you start your day
Variations to ensure comfort and safety
Tips for making practice easy, approachable, and sustainable
And much more!
