I've been deep in research and background work for the coffee house book lately. Character biographies have been one aspect of that, b...

  Today is Mother's Day. I am blessed to be able to spend the day quietly at home with Puck and Tink. They're napping now, which...

I've been thinking a lot lately about the role the collection has (and has had) in my writing career. The bulk of my non-work writ...

Today we're celebrating my mom's graduation with her BSN (from my alma mater, in fact). She's worked long and hard, and truly ...

Today my mother is walking across the stage to accept her Bachelor's of Science in Nursing at the same place I earned my own Bachelor...

In the coming weeks, I'll be making some changes here at the blog from a content standpoint. I hope to make the changes slowly and subtl...

When it comes to fiction, I adore what I write. I mean, I have to in order to put that much into it, right? On the other hand, there are...

April 2013 Tink turned two this past Friday, and we celebrated on Sunday. I can hardly believe my little pixie is already two! It'...

The first idea for the coffee house book came in 2004 as I was preparing for my first foray into NaNoWriMo . The idea wasn't developed...

There have been times that, as a writer, I've been frustrated that I "don't have time" to work on the collection. Which is...