Today is the six-year anniversary of the date of my spinal surgery. If you haven’t heard my sad, gruesome tale, frankly I’m surprised because I
I recently finished writing PLOTTED, book #2 of my new Sugar Mill Marketplace series. Right now, the Marketplace consists of a used bookstore, bakery, chocolate
(This is a post from 2009. But I stumbled on it recently and it made me giggle so I thought maybe you’d like it too.)
My son and daughter-in-law became foster parents to two toddlers, three-ish and two-ish. They had no children of their own, and not a ton of
PROLOGUE… When Becky’s power went out, she and her hubs realized their battery back-up for their important stuff wasn’t working. Hubs got a new one
I was out with writer friends recently and the discussion turned to language, as it does. We were at Happy Hour after our Sisters in
… and now I have many, many thoughts about the instructions on my new garden hose. Every kid who grew up in suburbia drank from
I love maps. If I had known the word cartographer as a kid, I might have had an entirely different career trajectory. I’ve talked many
I got an “overpayment notice” in the mail the other day from Time Magazine. I had to read it three times. At first I thought
I was busy doing Very Important Work—okay, fine, I was working the Sunday crosswords—when I heard birds squawking and the neighbor dogs barking up a