So, today, the Level Best Authors promotion group I’m a part of had their first joint post on a host blog. The question we all answered...

HI there and welcome to Crazy Town. At least that’s where I am right now. So busy I don’t have much time to bemoan our political...

The marsh grass is the color of wheat, now. Little did I know, that when we bought this house, the lowcountry marsh behind it would...

Attending church was the one day I absolutely counted on to dress up a little, force myself to put on a decent amount of makeup, and head...

Uhh… With a start, I remembered the time I had inadvertently puckered ugly lipstick stains on the inside of my mask. No use wearing...

It feels strange to go out now. If I have to sneeze (heaven forbid) and I am in a store, even though masked, I feel like a ‘super...

There is one thing my husband and friends mock and denigrate me about as if I were the queen of fools. Quite honestly, I’m sick of it. I...

I cannot imagine what California and New York are going through. Enforced isolation. Isn’t that a little like, um, prison? I know, I...

I resisted Pinterest for years. My daughters encouraged me to try it, but I couldn’t see the point. Add another time-waster to my day? I...

I’ve read and re-read my journal entries for the year, amazed at the messes, encouraged by the forward motion in spite of. Last year’s...

We became good friends, and I thought how cool it would be to write for a living. So eventually, I did. Little did I know 1) how long it...

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. –Margaret Miller Isn’t a conversation a two-way street?...

I haven’t had so much fun in years. The counter-intuitive KETO-nutso diet really works, I guess, at least until somebody figures out that...

The phone call from my agent was less a thunderclap and more a gentle spring shower. I’d finished the darn manuscript three years ago,...

Christmas has come and gone, and with it, my balloon-like joy.  It popped the minute everyone left my house. Oh, we had lovely memories...

Family gatherings with all their differing perspectives and personalities are often difficult to manage, but throw in a history cluttered...

Be it an overloaded calendar, an unruly or inappropriate co-worker, a toxic relationship or activity, an adult child or friend that has...

I figured, yeah, I’d be one of about five people there. When I got there at six on the dot, all seats were taken in a room that held...

First, a change in assigned responsibilities on a new contract, and second; a tense conversation with one of the managers. It was a...

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “Your will be done.”...