Mama Says #21

My mother likes to rub it in my face that she lives in south Florida, especially in the winter. Especially if it’s cold where I live in Colorado. Especially if we’ve had snow. My mom likes to sit on the lanai (I love that word: lanai) when she talks on the telephone....

Empty Cravings

The typical coffee drinker consumes an average of 3.1 cups per day. Thirty million adults pour specialty coffee concoctions down their gullets. And what is everyone else drinking? I’m not much of a coffee drinker. But I do enjoy a warm beverage at my desk, and easily...

How Is Your Noveling Going?

This post originally ran on the WordServe Water Cooler blog at www.wordservewatercooler.com, a terrific daily resource and encouragement for writers of all varieties.   “Noveling.” On the day that I’m writing this, I’ve typed the word novelist several times and...