• Read Along Part 1

    May 19, 2022 /

    Be aware that there will be spoilers as I read through this book. I started The Stranger Times a couple of days ago. My right-before-bed reading. I find that I’m reading it like a reader, and then as I think…

  • Catching Up With Everyone

    March 20, 2022 /

    I haven’t had much to say for awhile, mostly because I’ve been crazy busy. As you know, my dad died in January and so I’ve been helping my mom a lot. She moved into assisted care to be with Dad,…

  • Sadness

    January 27, 2022 /

    My father passed away on 1/25/22. He was 92. He’d had pneumonia, which had caused heart issues too, and his body just couldn’t overcome it. My brother, my mother, and I were present, which was not supposed to be since…

  • January 22 Newsletter text

    January 22, 2022 /

      Hi Everyone. I sent my newsletter out and for some reason known only to the computer gremlins, it only sent to a very few people. I am copying and pasting in the main text of it here, and hopefully…

  • Poor Poor Pitiful Puppy

    December 11, 2021 /

    I wanted to share with you these pictures of Crowley who is dying of thirst. DYING OF THIRST. Seriously. He’s about to just dry up and blow away.  

  • Worse Than Anticipated

    October 19, 2021 /

    You know that book I was reading? Romantic suspense? And I wanted to keep reading even though I had fears about where it was going? It was so much worse than anticipated. I really don’t want to be mean to…

  • Annoying Tropes

    October 15, 2021 /

    I did a thing recently where I wrote down a list of tropes that I like to read in books, and started a list of those I don’t. The second list right now isn’t very long, probably because I had…

  • Advice to Writers

    October 4, 2021 /

    The featured image is just one of the little promo ads I made. I’ve been enjoying playing with the app and getting some promo out of it. This is my last week of teaching for a little while. I love…