Fear. As a profound sufferer from migraines, I've always known the brain is complicated. Just ask my list of doctors who resorted to the eenie-meenie-minie-moe method to try to prevent them and, when that didn't work, treat them. So, it [...]
Each day is a gift of a new beginning. A gift of life. A chance to love. We are each on our own journey. We cannot direct that of another, but where we intersect, there is the story of community. [...]
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.--Joan Didion Stories. It has now been a couple of months since Entangled Moon was published. Between marketing, attending writing conferences, working on my second book(s), and enjoying summer activities with family and [...]
In May, I had the opportunity to post about the 5 books that inspired me to write my coming-of-age suspense thriller. It sounds easy. Or at least, it sounds like it should be easy. In fact, picking the 100 books [...]
Relationships can get complicated. Here is a list of the characters who really matter or who help drive the plot in Entangled Moon. Feel free to print this off and refer to it when things get...well, entangled: Heather Collings--protagonist and [...]
She had been walking between two worlds most of her life. Like DAPL criss-crossing worlds as if they did not exist. It was her Mom who first told her how to travel in between. That conversation was perma-inked into her [...]
These discussion questions and topics are by no means exhaustive, but I hope they give you a landing point for discussing Entangled Moon. Choose some and create others. Reading is a mutually creative process. Enjoy and collaborate. How have our [...]
Love. Esperanza walked to the back of the fully bloomed and now entangled garden. It was where she knew she could always find the pulse of love. The sounds of late summer surrounded her, but all she could hear was [...]
1 Tb olive oil 2 garlic cloves 2 c enriched long-grain white rice 2 c water 2 c black bean soup Salt to taste Lemon slices for garnish Strain the black bean soup to separate the liquid and beans. In [...]
The Rose Garden is a place of enchantment that lay across the street from where I lived in Northern California. Sunny Hollow is not the town I grew up in, but The Rose Garden is the same place that served [...]