Just. Watch. Me.
Trusting your gut: When you know you’re right, but no one else seems to.
There are many things that kinda suck about hitting middle age... like, I don’t have as much energy as I used to... my vision gets continually worse...and I routinely “lose” words—sometimes entire trains of thought—from one second to the next. Yeah, it can be...
#ThemToo: The OTHER victims of sexual misconduct
They're on TV and in the papers—giving statements to magazines and joining the twitter storm. Scratch that—they're MAKING the twitter storm. It seems as if every day someone else is standing up and taking back their power and their dignity. Their lives. Which is...
Happy Cancerversary to Me!
Five years is a magical number to a cancer survivor. So much so, that it’s actually a thing—“The five-year survival rate.” As per the American Cancer Society: Survival rates tell you what portion of people with the same type and stage of cancer are still alive...
Wildcard Week: Ten Things About Me
Joining my “Personal Insights,” “Words & Music” and “Behind the Book” blog segments this month is the catch-all category of “Wildcard.” That is to say, whatever I can scare-up to post on the fourth Tuesday of the month. This time around, a little something for the...
Behind the Book: Counterpoint’s Alexandria Mickelson-Fitch
As a writer, I’m often amazed at the characters that I’m able to create. Sometimes they’re inspired by real people that I know...and real people that I don’t know. Other times, they’re born out of a question—usually, a “what if?” but occasionally a “what kind of a...
Words & Music: Guest Post from Author Patty Blount
In recent weeks I've had the pleasure of meeting and connecting with several new authors. It's been so exciting—and eye-opening—to see how other writers approach some of the challenges I experience in my own writing—like capturing music in words on the page. For this...
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