As you may or may not know, my life is generally chaotic. There's been a lot going on in my personal life, and I've had some diffi...

Today is a special day. This afternoon, I have the privilege to be in a choir performance celebrating a friend's 35 years in music min...

My fiction-writing career is not where I'd like it to be. I'm making progress on the collection, but from time to time I think abo...

The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown is one of my favorite children's books. I read it to my children constantly and still get a li...

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...