A Year in Review As I write this, the hours are slipping away, counting down to the last minutes of 2022. And, as is the overarching...

I'm a wee bit slow at adopting new things and new technologies. It took me years of owning a smartphone before I finally caved and...

Really, it's all Joanna Penn from The Creative Penn's fault. All this talk of NFTs and AI generated art on her podcast got me interested...

I never know where things will go in a year. Having three kids in the house, with various bouts of illness, time off, and more has made...

It hits Sometimes And I, I am disarmed Unworded, if you will The conversations that are impossible That I cannot utter That I do not say...

The Almighty Plan Plans change. Always. And so it is with writing. I come up with a plan. It works or it doesn't, I learn from it, and...

First Draft - DONE! Well, I would not say I zoomed to a finish, but I definitely completed the manuscript. I can't remember which author...

Last week, I needed the distraction of working on my current work in progress. The days were ticking down to THE DAY, and if I thought...

Speaking up isn't easy. It takes courage... I hit the Unfriend button the other day on Facebook. The woman won't miss me. I'm pretty sure...

Call it a sign. Or a lesson learned. Or just...the roller coaster of life. There will be no refinancing, or cash in hand to perform...

Since my teen was eight or nine, they have received a monthly allowance. We always called it profit sharing. Semantics aside, it was a...

I learned to play the game of pool when I was around ten years old. My stepdad bought an antique slate table that weighed so much it took...

I woke up this morning with a memory that harks back to the Christmas of 1995 or 1996. I was visiting Missouri with my eldest child for...

No Money Upfront Life is full of lessons. We learn them every day. Even, it seems, in my 50s. The lesson for today? No cash advances for...

Cough, hack, cough. Damned plague monkeys. Also known as CHILDREN. The itty bitty one, now almost 11 months, brought home some kind of...

We are definitely in the dog days of summer here in Missouri. For some reason, I'm not sure why, this has actually been the easiest...

After 4+ years of roller coaster ups and downs, we finally adopted our 6 1/2 year old, Angela, on Friday. There wasn't much fanfare. It...

Heck, I'm on a book buying spree these days! I've bought about half a dozen Kindle books, and I just purchased two native landscaping and...

Deals on ALL of My Books You read one of my books and fell in love. You must read more. All of them - twelve in total. And honestly, who...

Endings. Beginnings. We have it all here. I was sitting on the beach in Santa Cruz. It was Friday, the 27th of May and we were nearing...