📚 Writing Wednesday: Simplicity, Luxury, Refinement
This morning, I grabbed my usual cup of coffee (blueberry flavored with flax milk) and my current read (Wilkie Collins’s 1860s thriller, THE WOMAN IN WHITE), and headed out to my…
👓 Writing Wednesday: Big Bookstack
Bookstack for the AutodidactAn autodidact is a self-taught person. That’s what the Merriam-Webster Dictionary online edition tells me when I look it up just to make sure I'm not missing any…
🍄 Mindful Monday, February 3, 2020
HAPPINESS In the late summer of 2018, I arrived in San Diego and settled with my husband into a furnished apartment on K Street in the Gaslamp District. After living…
🍸 Friday Happy Hour, January 31, 2020
Well, we made it to Friday, peeps, so welcome to my first A GOOD LIFE IN CRAZY TIMES Friday Happy Hour! Whoo-hoo! In honor of happy hour, I will tell you…
✍️Writing Wednesday: Stash Away All
Clippings and maps and notes, oh my! So I'm in the beginning stages of a big new project proposal for Wattpad Paid Stories. As I've set a number of stories…
Techno Woes
General wisdom for us creatives is to use our own website as our main platform rather than social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. This makes sense. It does. However,…
☕️ 2020 Vision
The start of a new year is like opening up to the first page of a new book. I mean, it has that new book smell, right? The pages are unmarred…
The Coziest Time of the Year
In which I try to make amusing excuses about neglecting my blogging responsibilities.
San Diego Open Mic June 2019
Dear Reader: Every second Friday of the month, San Diego Writers, Ink hosts a Dime Stories open mic event. I love these readings. What better way to spend a relaxing Friday…
Success: What is it Good For?
I’ve been thinking about success a lot these days--what it means, what happens if you fail, what happens if you don’t fail. Is the journey really the point, or are we…