A Day in the Next: A Journey from Brooklyn to Buddhism: Interview with Arlaana Black (Don't Mess with the Mommas)

Carla interviews Arlaana about her memoir: A Day in the Next: A Journey from Brooklyn to Buddhism, available on Amazon in three formats. Narrowly escaping death as an infant, Arlaana wrote this memoir to encourage people to live their lives to the fullest, with the message: Nothing is impossible. Raised with a mother who experienced 13 hospitalized nervous breakdowns and a father with pre-dementia at age 40, her book is filled with zany escapades and extreme pathos, as she barely escaped death three more times, ending up in a heroin den in Paris during her four month European adventure at age 19, and barely surviving an attack after a singing gig in New York City.

Arlaana helped start a successful school in New York with fellow SGI Buddhist teachers and was accepted to Columbia University after being laughed at for applying.

In Part 2 of the book, she writes about how she and her talented husband Chuck began two restaurants, the first with no money and no kitchen and got a four-star review in: How to Run a Gourmet Restaurant on Four Microwaves and an Oven on an Island in the South.

And there's lots more stories, including finding out she was pregnant when Chuck thought she was having a heart attack, and then in labor for six days.