Friday Life Footnotes
“Happy Birthday, Daddy” “Well, hell-OOOH.” I grin at the sound of the steady ...
Hello Again
I’M (ALMOST) BACK! After a 2,100 mile move from my Iowa hometown to Atlantic Canada last summe ...
4 Tales From Heartland + Love Unlikely
IT’S HERE! By popular request from my book loving readers – The paperback version of Tal ...
Spotting Ideas
Where do you get your ideas? Whether at a workshop I lead, an author panel I’m on, or m ...
Resolve Depends on You
It’s mid-January and the resolve behind those New Year’s resolutions has dissolved, replaced by reas ...
Fashion Treads
The fashion-defying old boots I wore for warmth self-destructed on my 62nd birthday. Flakes of crumb ...
Learners Life Long
I love leading workshops and discussions with other life long learners who share my joy and passion ...
No Fat Here
“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fa ...
How to Hook Readers
Crime novelist extraordinaire Mickey Spillane said it best. The first page sells the book. The last ...
