Excerpt from Vestiges

What better time than the week between Christmas and the New Year to reflect on what has happened over the last twelve months. It’s a...

The other day, my son, the one I thought would NEVER show interest in anything I’ve written, told me how he’s read my manuscripts when I...

It has always amazed me how gullible we can be, from the least of us to the very elect. To be gullible means to be easily persuaded to...

Words and the way gifted writers use them have always fascinated me. An author who crafts a paragraph that makes my mouth salivate, my...

A few years ago, I attended a writers conference where keynote speaker Regina Sirois compared mountain climbing to our writing careers....

Whether we want to admit it or not, writers have a great responsibility to their readers. Those who write and publish without...

I was thrilled to hear that I’m not the only writer who struggles with demons in the process of creation. Years ago, in an American Night...

Have you ever watched a toddler explore the world? Whatever circumstance we place before them, they move about touching, seeing, tasting,...

I think I’m a late bloomer—you know, the kind of girl who stumbles through her early years lanky and boyish, whose body holds back until...

I am currently working on a novel that deals with the meaning of truth through the eyes of science, religion, and two different cultural...