Friday Five – Less reading is more…

Five reasons I feel good about reading fewer books this year than I usually do: 5. I’ve always wanted to learn to do something sort of artistic, like sew. Sewing didn’t really work out, but I’ve learned to knit this year and I really love it. 4....

Don’t Tell Me What To Do!

When my new article was first published, it was called Red Hair Is Not As Uncommon As You Think. The version that just came out in The Writer Magazine is slightly revised and renamed Of Wicked Stepmoms and Dorky Heroines, but for the most part, the same piece....

Music and Writing – Part Two

As I mentioned yesterday in the post below this one, my husband just did a really fun music gig and a lot of it is on youtube. We have a friend visiting from the South and she sang a few songs with my husband. One of the songs they did was written by Victor’s...