Category Archives: Life

Need a Book to Read?

Posted on March 17, 2020 by

As I mentioned over on my main blog, I use reading books as a refuge from stress. The worse life gets, the more I read. Which is why I dropped the price on a number of my ebooks yesterday to … Continue reading →

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Priorities

Posted on October 21, 2017 by

It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m sitting here at my desk trying to motivate myself to work on a story that just doesn’t want to come together. It’s a holiday story so if I want to publish it this year I … Continue reading →

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I Should Be Happier

Posted on June 14, 2017 by

I’m sitting here in my own house with pup snoring somewhere down the hallway and my day is completely my own. I can write, I can sit out on the porch and read a book. I’m in good (enough) health.  … Continue reading →

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I Know You Mean Well, But…

Posted on June 2, 2017 by

So I mentioned a little bit ago that I have a friend who’s dealing with brain tumors.  They’ve set up a FB page to keep everyone posted about what’s going on so I’m getting to see not just updates by … Continue reading →

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You Could, But Have You?

Posted on May 23, 2017 by

That’s the much more polite version of what I found myself wanting to say more than once this weekend.  I was visiting a good friend and her spouse and the spouse–who was once incredibly successful but basically hasn’t done much … Continue reading →

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That Gray Area Between Death and Life

Posted on May 3, 2017 by

I’d written about 300 words of a post about ethics and how like people gravitate to like people and then realized I just didn’t want to go there today.  But…Since I’m here… A very good friend of mine just found … Continue reading →

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A New Year, Time to Write

Posted on January 1, 2017 by

When I was growing up I wrote a lot of bad poetry.  It was my way of dealing with all the drama of home, including a terminally ill father.  After he died I wrote even more.  It’s not publishable, I … Continue reading →

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On Compliance…

Posted on December 23, 2016 by

Gee, I’m blogging a lot this month. Must be because I have a novel I need to write… Recent events have me thinking back to this fundamental truth that I’ve known for a long while: No one person (at least … Continue reading →

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A Reminder About Depression

Posted on December 19, 2016 by

It’s been a looong time since I’ve mentioned depression here on the blog.  But on Twitter today one of the folks I followed shared a link to a blog post I thought was worth sharing by someone who is struggling … Continue reading →

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Clawing My Way Forward One Day At a Time

Posted on December 16, 2016 by

I should be writing, but I’m not.  So I figured it was a good time to stop and reassess and maybe tell a story that might give someone somewhere a glimmer of hope… (Maybe.  Or be that last nail in … Continue reading →

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