At the Corner of Comfort and Easy Streets

I’m visiting at my sister’s for a couple of weeks. It’s a thousand miles from where I live on more than one level. The agenda for the trip is to help with the complex task of settling my mother into a new living situation. Until now, she has lived independently...

Booksigning Questions

Last weekend I had the opportunity to spread my wares at a library event in a town about two hours from where I live. I don’t have a lot of experience at library events as an author, but I am a big fan of public libraries. Some of my fondest childhood memories...

The Story Within the Story

I like to tell stories and often do in this spot on my blog—filed under “Lens on Life.” Small moments, routine events, a few words of conversation from the everyday can lift us from the ordinary to a surpassing wonder about this beautiful thing we call life. By...

To Series or Not to Series

Do you read past book 1? In the last year, I’ve had the privilege of rolling out the start of two different series, Avenue of Dreams and Valley of Choice. Ten months from now, both series will be complete. Out there. Out of my hands. Up to the readers to judge. The...

Can You Trust the Signs?

Recently an urgent, stressful family situation snatched me out of town abruptly and bumped me through several states. That trip backed right up against a planned business trip. I ended up being away from home for three straight weeks. Believe me, I was ready to go...