Year: 2019

The holidays get me thinking about family. I wish I could spend even a few minutes with my long-gone relatives, but I’ll have to do with this photo and stories I’ve heard over the years. This is the last photograph ever taken of my great-grandmother, […]

The holidays always get me thinking about family. Here are some of my memories, and I hope you will share some of yours. I love having everyone to my house to celebrate the holidays, and I think I got in that habit because of the […]

Everyone who creates, whether it be writing or other art forms such as painting, dancing, singing, etc. has stood at that huge wall of “What do you think?” And waited for strangers, who had no part in your creation, to give an opinion. And this […]

Regardless of what genre or style you write in, I’m certain your readers see a theme or pattern emerge. It’s how they identify what you write.  In everything I write, one theme sneaks its way in. It’s something expected, or maybe it’s unexpected, depending on […]

I am learning to play American Mah Jongg. It’s a game with tiles that can be loosely compared to the card game Gin Rummy. Real Mah Jongg is not at all like the matching-of-tiles computer game! The game can be complicated. My advice is to […]

My historical romance novel, STEADFAST WILL I BE, launched today on Amazon, BarnesandNoble, Kobo, Google, and ibooks. It has been a long time in the works, and I am so excited to see what comes next! Order your own copy, ebook or paperback, and I […]

I had not intended to write about computers today, but because my heart is pounding and my frustration level is at a peak, I am venting! I have tried for three days to retrieve email from my brand new author account and get it sent […]

Like most writers, I have created stories since before I could even write down the words, but the question is WHY? What in me or you makes it a necessity to create with words? Other people might have similar needs, for example, to draw or […]