My sisters and I spent all our childhood summer vacations with my grandparents in Baltimore, Maryland and my Grandmother had three consistent messages for us: 1. You have to suffer to be beautiful 2. Sit up straight or you’ll get a hump in your back 3. You need to curl the ends of your hair… Read More You Have to Suffer to be Beautiful

Okay my first clue that I was a lesbian should have been my dogged refusal to carry a purse. When I was growing up I stuffed my license, money, keys, etc into whatever pants I was wearing. If a pair of pants didn’t have pockets, I wouldn’t buy them. My mother tried, bless her heart,… Read More My Idea of a Purse

I have two left feet. Not because I can’t dance, although I don’t have much dancing prowess – that is true, but because of today’s hilarious event… So here’s what happened to me today. My wife insisted I get a new pair of black shoes because honestly I don’t care what shape my shoes are… Read More Two Left Feet

I have a dilemma. I created a pen name, not because I am concerned about being out at work, but because of my position and the responsibility attached to it. I am the Chief Human Resource Officer at my place of employment and we have strict policies on the use of profanity in the workplace.… Read More To Reveal or Not to Reveal – That is the Question

Okay so I believe I have to yank down the nerd flag after this morning’s fire drill. I don’t know what happened because I used to love technology and computers. I would scour the internet for obscure code to do special things with my Access Databases and the internet site that I designed and made… Read More I Love Technology-Okay Not

A little less than a year ago I got an e-mail from Julie Dragon and Erin O’Reilly who wanted to Skype with me to talk about my submission. Holy shit, two of my favorite authors wanted to Skype with me. To say I was all in a twitter would have been an understatement. Did I… Read More Nerd Alert

Toni glided into the ballroom and watched as several heads turned in her direction. She was scanning the room hoping to set her sights on the redhead. Almost as if she felt her scrutiny, Toni turned her head right and locked eyes with her object of desire for the evening. A practiced glance at the… Read More Excerpt from: Asset Management coming out in August

It’s the summer of nineteen ninety-eight and it’s unseasonably hot for late August in Seattle. I’m sweating so bad that I have big armpit stains on my tank top as I scrutinize the old brick building. Students are bustling about resembling ants in front of an anthill. The old brick building is their anthill. My… Read More Excerpt from: Live Forever Love Forever Coming out in April

Look at him. He doesn’t look like much does he?  I never thought he would be fast enough to catch a mouse or vole or whatever it was. I mean he’s kind of big, not fat. We don’t say fat in our household. We say he is of generous proportions. Anyway, I come home and… Read More Death By Vacuum