Happy Halloween: Cormorants Bob for Fish

I write a weekly newspaper column about my community, and that means I have to keep my eyes open. I don’t like writing the same old stories that are written every few months, so I have to be even more alert, and I have to be ready to go when the story shows itself to [...]

Love Letters

Today, I found love!
Well, let me clarify that. A couple of friends and I bought a box of old love letters at an antique store four years ago. The letters, written in the early 1900’s, had been carefully saved in an Old Spice box for over 100 years. Since we bought them, we have been [...]

Ahh, These Things Soothe My Spirit!

I’m so excited! This has been a good week. If you read my “about me” page, you saw that my story Blind Sighted was slated for inclusion in a Chicken Soup book that had to be canceled. Blind Sighted was the first story I submitted, so I was proud that it had been chosen and [...]

Please Re-Lease Me

It’s a good day. We leased another office space. This is the same building I set up shop in a few days ago to have some peace and quiet for my writing.
It’s disheartening to fix up a neglected building and then to only be able to lease the spaces that have an outside entrance. We’ve [...]

Four Walls…Four Different Walls

Every day, I planned to write. Every day, other demands got in the way. Writing had become something like dieting…I never got past the “good intention” stage.
I longed for a place where I could be completely alone, with no telephone, no responsibilities to anyone except myself, and no email to distract me or to add to [...]