Our New Reality

Welcome to Our New reality

Welcome to our new reality. Covid-19. Sheltering in place. Stupid invisible germs and visible jerks. (Come on people, social distancing is the new norm… can’t we all stop breathing on each other in line?)   I’m cranky and sick. Not Read more

What Inspires You?

Travel inspires me. Did I ever tell you about the time I should have been murdered in Tahiti?   No? Just youthful stupidity while traveling alone—the story is boring, really there were only five locks and bolts on the door…I Read more

Scroogish

You might say that I am a bit of a humbug, or maybe I’m a little Scroogish? Perhaps so. I have to confess that I’m not much of a Christmas fanatic. I think my problem stems from a lack of Read more

Grateful for Cats…

  I’m Grateful for Cats. And Laughter. Grateful for the Wisdom that comes from random conversations with strangers. And from your Kid. I’m grateful for Writing. For the Tapping of Keys when the words flow, and the Books of Others, when Read more

Spotlight incl Guestpost & Short Story: LE Franks – Kiss,Kiss!: Stories of Love and Cake

A Look Back – A Look Forward, and What I Learned In the churn and burn of a writer’s life, there are the all-to-frequent ‘Dark Night of The Soul’ moments–between books, in the middle of writing your current story, and Read more

Will You? Won’t You?

Will You? Won't You?

I’m writing my inaugural post to you from the passenger seat of my 2013 Volkswagen Jetta—it’s white, in case you care, and it’s a 6-speed manual with a turbo boost, because I do. We’re making excellent time from Albuquerque, the Read more