Apr 16, 2026 | The Writing Life, Tips and Tricks
It seems like a simple thing to do, but it’s amazing how many people refuse to open the door. Almost every success I’ve ever had in life has come from me either jumping on an opportunity or creating one. My first book was published when a friend told me...
Jan 17, 2024 | The Writing Life
Hello everyone. It’s been a long time. Too long, and I apologize for that. So much has happened over the past year. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had two big dreams: live in a warm place by the ocean, and write full time. After many, many years of...
Feb 2, 2021 | The Writing Life
The dream is closer than I thought. All it took was setting myself on FIRE. Which is way less painful than it sounds. The FIRE movement, short for Financial Independence Retire Early, is already changing my life dramatically. I always thought one of three things had...
Jan 6, 2021 | The Writing Life
Am I the only one who wants Christmas back? I was happy to see the end of 2020, but so far, 2021 has brought me: a broken filling (ouch), “fun” with an insurance company who wrongly terminated my benefits, a kitten that was so destructive he had to be...
Dec 2, 2020 | The Writing Life
To paraphrase Poltergeist, “I’m ba-ack.” At least for now. When Alex Cavanaugh, the great leader of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group, suggested I make my monthly newsletter post an IWSG one so I didn’t have to leave the group, I...
Nov 4, 2020 | The Writing Life
Something had to give. I’ve known it for some time now. I just couldn’t figure out what. Or maybe the truth was I didn’t want to admit it — even to myself. But, after seventeen years of blogging, I’m hanging up my hat. I thought it would...
