Some of my favorite books are about Southern women and the Southern way of life because quite honestly some of the sayings are laugh out loud funny. I figure if I’d been born in the South and lived there my whole life, I too would be able to write laugh out loud funny books just… Read More Wish I was a Southern Lady….

Every day I learn something new about Social Media. Today I submitted an application for a new Goodreads author page. I don’t even have my Facebook, Tweets, Pinterest,  or Authorise mastered, but what the hell, I signed up anyway. My wife joked with me today and said that keeping up with all of this is… Read More Who Knew?

I’m in an odd occupation for an introvert. I am the Human Resources Executive at a Healthcare organization. HR is the department that plans all those fun activities and I end up being smack dab in the middle of it all. We bar-b-que all day and schmooze with the employees. We come in and bar-b-que on… Read More Mandatory Fun

My mother wasn’t just a beautiful person, she was a selfless mother. Everything she did showed us how much she loved us, even when we didn’t always agree. It took my mother many years to accept that I was a lesbian, not because she didn’t love me, but because she did. She thought that somehow… Read More Ode to My Beautiful Mother

Competition.

So I’ve been told that I’m very competitive. I like to think I’m goal driven. Recently the organization I work for starting a walking competition.  We plan on walking as an organization from Washington State to Key West, Florida. Guess who suggested the gay capitol of Florida? It pays to be the only Senior Leader… Read More Competition

 I entered the Social Media arena about six years ago because I thought if my 70 year old mother can do it, so can I. So I set up an account sent requests to friends and family and then I never looked at it. It was quite simply a big mystery to me. Besides, my… Read More Social Confusion & Awkwardness

Recently I shared a draft of a new manuscript, Out of This World, with a reader who liked my first book, Love Forever, Live Forever. She used two words to describe my new book, ducking brilliant. I absolutely loved that phrase and asked her if I could use it in a future book. In the same… Read More Ducking Brilliant

  I grew up with a grandmother that some would have called bat shit crazy, but to us she was just eccentric. My dad likes to tell stories about my grandmother and I must admit to never tiring of hearing this one, but just to set things up a little I’m going to share a… Read More A Writer’s Deam…An Eccentric Grandmom

I’d just turned seventeen when my dad asked if he could talk with me. “Pizza Pie, do you have a moment to talk?” My nickname, Pizza Pie is a whole other story. Oh shit, I thought. I was getting ready to go off to college in a week. I’d been bored in high school so… Read More Sex Advice From Dad