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: you...

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: you...

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...

  Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. This week, we're talking about what would ...

Two years ago, we had a plan. Mom, my sister, my aunt, and I were going to Ireland to celebrate my mother's 70th birthday…but of course,...

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...

Wow! That was fast. I mean, after nearly eighteen months of hardly going anywhere and seeing only the people in my bubble, you'd think I...

I've technically had a "room of my own" for a couple of years now. When the eldest daughter went off to college, the younger d...

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 th...

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...

A writing life is a lot like a teaching life and a mom-ing life, in that there isn't really an end to the work. Sure, you finish thi...

Tuesday, September 26, 2017, is a landmark in my writing life. It's day number 1,460 in a row in my writing chain. That's four yea...

This summer has been all about short stories. That's a real change of pace for me. I've been pushing myself to put out a novel a y...

It's convention time! I'm heading out to ConCarolinas this weekend. ConCarolinas is a multi-genre multi-media convention held in C...