Seven years ago I set out to get serious about my writing. My dream to tell stories, construct beautiful sentences, and write entire books became a passion. I wanted to be a better writer without …
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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 …
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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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 …
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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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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