Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: y...

  Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: yo...

Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's the  In...

image source I've been working on a novel for about a year (a gothic romance, working title The Architect and the Heir ). It's going...

Reading has always been my escape, well, as long as I can remember anyway. But like a lot of readers I've talked to recently, falling in...

Critical Read put out a call recently for short nonfiction posts about art that is seeing you through the pandemic. They rejected my submis...

I love reading. When I was less employed I read two or three books a week, and I still try for one a week even with my day job, side hustle,...

More Disney! (See our earlier thoughts here , here , here , here , and here ) To put these in perspective for my daughter, I told her that...

If you've been reading these posts, you already know my husband got us a subscription to Disney Plus, so my daughter (age 12) and I have...

I'm ambivalent about Disney. The company has created a lot of stories that I've enjoyed in my life, but they have also helped fe...

The new season of Wording Wednesday has begun. Fellow author Andy Brokaw collects a set of prompts and puts them out there for the worl...

I love my family and my teaching life, but sometimes they feel like they're going to squash me. At the worst of times, it's like p...

It's easy to get in a rut in your reading. After all, when you find something you like, you want more! But there is a such thing as to...

I have a metaphorical cholesterol problem. I just can't get enough cheese! No, I don't mean cheddar or muenster or gouda (thou...