When I was a pre-teen my friends and I had a favorite thing to do at sleepovers. No, it wasn’t pillow fights. It was playing ‘Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board’. Who remembers that game?! It was the popular thing to do at girl’s sleepover parties when I was a kid and the […]
I have always loved the summertime. I was born in July, and feel very connected to the middle of the year when the days are long, the sun is warm, and life feels a little more carefree. I spend a lot of time on our patio reading, writing, dreaming with my love about our future, […]
A friend of mine once said that she thinks there are two types of people in the way that they approach life: You are happy and content until something bad happens that causes you to be unhappy You are neutral and maybe negative, until something comes along that causes you to be happy I thought […]
Note: I was organizing my writing files and found this beginning to a story that I started about 10 years ago. Sorry for the language; the lady is a sailor 😉 A red silk scarf dangled from her fingers and dark hair hung in damp clumps about her face. With wild eyes scanning the restaurant […]
For nearly three years I was proud to utter this sentence: “I volunteer at a raptor rescue.” To which, every once in a while the person I was talking to would reply with a grin: “Like, . . . Velociraptors?!” And we would have a good laugh and I would picture myself teaching a Velociraptor […]
Since we’ve returned from Iceland a lot of people have asked us a variety of questions about our trip, the country, logistics, etc., so I thought I would capture my thoughts in one place. This island country is so unique and there are definitely some unexpected things that you come across that I think are […]
Ohhhhh yeeea, an actual store is carrying my book! Dream come true! The BookBar of Denver accepted my book into their local author program and I could not be more grateful. So of course I had to get a picture of me grinning stupidly next to my book on the shelf. So cheers to the […]
I’m doing some research for my next book and would like to know the following from you, dear reader: How many days a week would you say you remember what you dreamed about? Are your dreams detailed, or vague? Do you have recurring dreams? Do you have night terrors? (Different than nightmares. With night terrors […]
I am fortunate to have several different routes I can take to work in the morning. I make the decision based on traffic, weather, stops I might need to make on the way, and lately – just to see if I glimpse a particular person. I started noticing that the same man would be walking […]