Experiences, even bad ones, are fodder for my blogs. Here’s what happened last weekend… I live in a small community in the middle of the State during the week and my wife lives in an even smaller community on the other side of the mountains. Unfortunately, our jobs make it inconvenient to live in the… Read More Olde Dogg Seafood

Well shut the front door – I am my father’s daughter. The acorn did not fall far from the tree. When my wife says this to me, I am a little offended, but I’ve come to realize that I do share a number of his traits, both good and bad. When did this epiphany come… Read More My Father’s Daughter

Self awareness is a bitch…. I just discovered something about myself as I was giving my beta editor fits. I color outside the lines-especially when I write in first person. So here’s the deal…I never took a writing course, never went to the GCLS writing academy, didn’t major in English, but that didn’t stop me… Read More Coloring Outside the Lines

I find it fascinating how a writer can describe a character who has childlike qualities with positive connotations such as having childlike wonder, innocence, openness to the world, creativity, curiosity, etc. You all get the idea. Yet that same character might also be described as childish, immature, or infantile – all very unflattering attributes. This got… Read More Childlike or Childish

I just read RG Emanuelle’s blog and it rang so true.  Finding things to blog about is hard sometimes.  I chose the title Everyday Occurrences because that’s what I usually blog about those everyday funny bone moments when I say something silly (it’s usually me) and my wife starts laughing out loud.  Here’s what happened a few… Read More Where Did I Put The Soap?

Normally birthdays are just another day. In my family, we didn’t focus on birthdays too much. Sure they were celebrated, but not with the same kind of fanfare that I saw sometimes in other families. Even the big ones like 16, 21, 25, 30, 40, and gasp 50, seemed to come and go with relatively… Read More Best Advancing of Another Year Ever

So Take A Look At Me Now….

I’m both nervous and excited right now because my second book just came out, called Asset Management. Whenever I’m nervous, songs run through my head. So the song that is currently running through my head is from the movie, Against All Odds. Anyone remember that movie?   At one point someone said to me that… Read More So Take A Look At Me Now…