Food preparations, gift wrapping, laundry, my twin’s birthday, packing overnight bags, picking up dog food…these are a few things on my min...

  This Week's Topic: On My Mind, the Winter Edition It's the time of year when I give myself permission to not write, to pause marke...

On my mind - ridiculous cute. To manage migraine, I do yoga nidra at noon each day. Most of the time, this is a solitary endeavor. Yesterday...

I wish I had something sexier for you. I don't. What's on my mind is Covid. Not just because it's surging in the US and around t...

I had Plans for today's blog post here at the SFF Seven. But we know what the poet said about best-laid plans... Yes, my day has gang ag...

Photo Credit: Pexels As the release of my debut, A Realm of Ash and Shadow , draws near, there are three things I’ve learned over this past ...

 I was referred to a biofeedback specialist who is training me to state shift. Shifting from fight or flight states to relaxed but alert sta...

Change is on my mind. I wish I could say it's just for this week, but that would be a lie. It's an ongoing theme this month. And sur...

 On my mind this week:  🍂YAY AUTUMN!!🍂 This is my favorite season. The cooler temperatures. The changing colors. Finally being able to tur...

  Photo by Emily Bauman on Unsplash While “Listen! You smell something?” is a brilliant comedic line in the 1984 film Ghostbusters , it als...

  There is so much, and at the same time, so little on my mind.  Today I sat in my garden and watched the sunshine peek through my hollyhock...

 Yesterday, Jeffe shared a blog post from the SFWA blog with me.  Treading on Embers talks about the challenges of existing - much less wri...

On my mind today: this gal on the right who turned 19 on Thursday. She is the picture of persistence. She ached to be the queen of the house...

It's 2022, year of the tiger, it's—well. It's that time I've earmarked for stepping back into the publishing game. Which mea...

On my mind this week: the real-world challenges for people with declining physical ability and how to incorporate that into fictional-world ...

Our topic this week at the SFF Seven is whatever is on our minds. Which is always dangerous to ask. We're all busy people, so I'm go...

Earlier this week, a fellow author who'd written a trilogy asked me the prize question: Should I find a small press or should I self pub...

On my mind this week, the beauty of starting at zero. The final book in my UF series is in the hands of my CP and soon to be handed off to m...

Ah, the many little substances, rituals, and activities we use to soothe ourselves. Corvid is partaking a little homegrown catnip.  Dad is b...

Life is like a broken butter dish, you never know—wait, wrong line. But I did crush my butter dish and I don’t know what I’m gonna get to r...