Bless our Wonderful Hearts this Holiday Season!
Bless your heart. This was the writing prompt for my teacher, Anne Randolph of Kitchen Table Writing fame. It took me a minute to get my...
Dancing with Words
It is 9:30 on Wednesday morning on a hot August morning. The air is thick with smoke from forest fires burning in the mountains. I have...
Speechless
Simply put, mothers like Maya DiMeo and I are forced to be fierce. Our tender mother-hearts turn from timid to courageous lion-hearts....
The Ladies at the Kitchen Table are #1 on Amazon!
Not sure how it all happened. After all, it was just a group of ladies like me with stories to tell. Stories of triumph and...
Part Two of My Interview with Viki King
Storytelling tips!
Where in the Special Needs Parenting Handbook is the Chapter on Laundry?
Nowhere in the Special Needs Parenting Handbook will you find a chapter on laundry. The red, cloth-covered book worn from years of...
You Bring Out the Tobago in Me
Even special moms have special moments. Enjoy this story of mine read at the fabulous Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, written as a...
A New Year Wails
The New Year wails, hungry for life, yet death hugs the notes of legends with darkness. Future memories of my youth are taken into its...
My Interview with Viki King, Author of How to Write a Movie in 21 Days, Part 1
It was a snowy spring day, a good day to stay home. As I settled in, the phone rang; it was a fellow writer and self-publisher who was...
Falling from Grace
It is the fall we rarely see coming. It sits, perched regal and great inside my heart. We sometimes fall from one thing into another. In...