Welcome to 2022. I got you. In the excitement of entering yet another year full of woes and wherewithals, I’m here to say there’s a better way. Now, I’m not immune to the gloom, but raising five kids taught me…
Author, Writer, Book Doula
Welcome to 2022. I got you. In the excitement of entering yet another year full of woes and wherewithals, I’m here to say there’s a better way. Now, I’m not immune to the gloom, but raising five kids taught me…
Is it time to go shopping? Need the perfect gift for someone who loves to read but already has all the books? I’ve gone shopping for you! Honor their need for words with this baker’s dozen list of best gifts…
Something snaps in the marketing mind of an Indie author as she careens through the social media maze and the website, uh, web. She sits at her desk one fine morning and realizes that her efforts at anonymity have been…
It’s National Library Week, and this library makes me happy. What? It appears utterly common, downright drab, and blends in with the native wildlife? Every mystic portal does, my deary. Only those with the gift of imagination know better and…
I love me a good reading challenge. I raised my fabulous five surrounded by books and, so far as I can tell, I think it’s done them well. The youngest is a tender twenty years old and can figure out…
โYou can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.โ C. S. Lewis Originally published in September, 2016, the following “recommended booklist” was a collaboration in progress until I created my Facebook…
Laura Trethewey sits across the folding table from me on bright San Diego Tuesday mornings, but we’re not supposed to talk to each other. The writing room is pretty much like sitting in detention and being forced to write a…
I guess I saw this moment coming, I just didnโt realize it would arrive so quickly. My children are splitting up their inheritance and Iโm not dead yet. As begins most of my plights, I was going along, minding my…