musings
October 15, 2025
Whew! It’s been a year since I posted here. I didn’t realize it had been that long. The past year…no the past three years have been particularly trying for me. At the beginning of this year, I evaluated if I even wanted to keep blogging. After a lot of thought and looking at other options, […]
March 6, 2024
Here I am, once again apologizing for not blogging for a year, not sending out a newsletter for a year, not publishing a book for more than a year. Let’s say the past year has felt like I’m a character in one of my novels. Someone who is making “heroic” choices one messy moment at […]
March 25, 2023
March is almost over. Spring is officially here. Easter is two weeks away. Though I’ve been incredibly busy since my last post for Veterans Day in 2022, it feels like I have nothing to show for it–at least not in the traditional way. I have no new book to release. I have no great promotions […]
November 11, 2022
I’m sure you are seeing lots of posts celebrating Veterans today. I’m happy to see them, and to join them with my own shout out. However, I also believe it is important to celebrate Veterans and thank them all of the time. Just as I believe it is important to celebrate others who put their […]
October 7, 2022
NOTE: Once again I am sharing a post I did on the Windtree Press site with some additional information. The past few months I’ve found it difficult to post in both places. This is presented here for those who don’t follow Windtree Press blogs (which I actually do recommend as many wonderful authors post there). […]
July 6, 2022
NOTE: This post first appeared on the Windtree Press blog on June 28, 2022. I’m sharing it here for my fans who don’t subscribe to the Windtree Press blog. In light of so much loss this year, I wanted to share the role my father played in my life for understanding death, grief, and most […]
July 5, 2022
Note: This is a continuation of a post I did on the 4th of July about The Price of Freedom and Independence. The history I learned in college seemed to use violent acts as the demarkation of changes for good or ill around the world. Classes are taught from conquest to slavery, from slavery to […]
July 4, 2022
If you are looking for a more traditional blog around Independence Day and how the constitution and it’s interpretation is so important to all rights, please read my post for last year: Celebrating the Meaning of July 4th . I talk about the founding of our country, the years of the colonists trying every way […]
June 28, 2022
I must admit that I’ve had a difficult time coming up with a blog for my website for more than a month. Just when it seems that there is a possibility to do something about climate change, COVID happens and takes all resources and planning. Just when it appears we have COVID in check and […]
June 9, 2022
With all that’s been happening in our world over the past few years, people in the news and on talk shows have been speculating where they think it leads. Some have visions of change and hope, while others see only destruction and dystopia. But what do Science Fiction authors conceive when they look at the […]
February 8, 2022
I don’t know about you but I’ve REALLY missed getting together with other writers, publishers, readers a lot over the last nearly three years of COVID impacts on life as I knew it. I’m not exactly a party girl or even a constant conference attender. But I do enjoy getting together with writers, publishers, readers […]
July 4, 2021
It seems that everyone in America loves the 4th of July. It is, after all, when we started down the path of becoming our own country. It is when our forefathers declared Independence from England. It is when many fought and lost their lives to form this country and move us forward. As a child […]
