This Spring has brought big changes to my life. I remember when I was a kid, growing up in the snowy white north of Upper Michigan, how Spring always revealed sleeping treasures. We'd spend Winter …
Holiday Reading- Publishing a Collection of Short Stories
I put the last five short stories I've written together in a collection and published them. Over the past few years I've written a story to give away as a holiday gift to friends; this grouping …
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Scaramouche, Scaramooch, Can You Do the Fandango? Also, Thank You Jane Kenyon
The same week that Apple programmed Siri to answer iphone users who said, “I see a little silhouetto of a man,” with, “Scaramouche, Scaramouche, can you do the fandango,” followed by the rest of the …
Editing My Novel: The Value of Taking a Break
When finished the second draft of my novel, The Perfect Traveler, I had a sludge of slow cooked emotions in my pot. Relief, pride, discouragement, frustration, embarrassment, achievement....never has …
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Why am I giving a short story as a gift?
Every day I milk a large, verbose cow. There was a little song my kids learned when they were preschoolers: "What can I give to the king, what can I give to the one who has everything." It's got a …
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How Long Should a Novel Be? (and other anxious doubts)
This weekend marked an enormous milestone for me: I completed the first working draft of my novel. I did not celebrate. In fact, I cried. Here's why. I've been working on this story …
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