I love Jane Austen, and I am not alone.  My sister and I adore her.  We’ve read all her book, and often return to our favorites. My favorite is Persuasion. I first read…

As New Year’s Day opens up before me, I find my skin is itching with an insatiable need to reorganize my whole house before the calendar says January 2. Lose 50 lbs in…

I wrote this last year a few days before Thanksgiving, but I could have easily just written it today. The sentiments remain, even if the date has changed. Merry Happy Holidays to you…

This past November I spent my time on the personal quest of writing 50,000 words in 30 days. Otherwise known as National Novel Writing Month. This was my ninth year. This November I…

I have all these things I want to share and write about. That’s the whole reason I have a blog to begin with. So this week, it was going to be about the…

I haven’t slept through the night in years. It’s not every single night, I have cycles of sleeping through. But then there are a few consecutive times I wake up in the middle…

The temperatures have dropped in my little corner of the world. The leaves laugh at me as I try to gather them for compost. Those still left in the trees, that is. They…

Hello and Happy Monday! A few announcements you might be interested in: I woke this morning to an email announcement that my short story “Mornings” has been published on line at the Literary…