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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It is Mother's Day and I am grateful that I can celebrate it. That I am allowed to utter my gratitude. And that is the reason I decided to write today. I hope you will forgive me for stepping into [...]
Lavender evokes a million emotions. It is not just the senses of sight, smell, touch, and taste. Once you have experienced a warm day, the scent of blooming lavender floating on a soft breeze, and the gentle buzzzz of bees [...]
Novelty ordinarily emerges only for the man who, knowing with precision what he should expect, is able to recognize that something has gone wrong. -Thomas S. Kuhn Photo by Arnold Dogelis on Unsplash
The world we take for granted wobbles with mysteries and sensory delights...Come to the window and look at all the marvels bustling through one slender moment: Lens-shaped clouds signaling high winds aloft...A magnolia tree's buds already burgeoning with fuzzy flower [...]
Fiona has it all. Everything. Tall. Beautiful. Blonde. Blue-eyed. Rich. Influential. Charismatic. Nothing can stop her. She is the It woman of Beverly Hills. She rattles off Louis Vuitton and Jimmy Choo accessories like they're pieces of cantaloupe. A shopping [...]