My blog

I am not a prude when it comes to clothing. I have been known to highlight my, ahem, assets, throughout my life. I have boobs that can cause major distraction in a push-up bra, so I deploy them [...]

This will be my third year of signing up for National Novel Writing Month. For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is a project started in 1999 by freelance writer Chris Baty in which writers of all [...]

Whenever I am feeling unmotivated to write, I pack up my laptop and printed manuscripts and take them on the road. My destination of choice is the cafe at my local Barnes and Noble in what is [...]

About a year ago, I started reading a book that had been personally recommended to me. I *sort of* knew the author and there was much to suggest I’d love the book. But, oh, I didn’t. [...]

I am not what you would call a famous author. With just one book that’s enjoyed modest success, I’m not exactly getting mobbed as I walk down the street (and I’m grateful for [...]

Many, many moons ago, at the advent of my spiritual journey, I bought a cassette with a guided meditation on it. (That it was on cassette should give you a clue at how long ago it was). On it, a [...]

Yesterday I did an event at a school about twenty minutes away from my house. I found out before the event that it was falling on the school’s “spirit day,” a day when students [...]

Today I was lucky enough to visit Passaic County Technical Institute in New Jersey to talk about my book to a great group of students. Such fun! We had a great, wide-ranging talk that covered [...]

When I first moved into this house nearly sixteen years ago, I approached landscaping it with the zeal only a the new homeowner can muster. Among my more impractical purchases was one of those [...]

I had a house full of people here last night, so I missed the Democratic presidential debate. Feeling like a bad Democrat, I fired up YouTube on my TV this morning as the kids still slept and put [...]

This weekend I saw more than the usual number of pictures of writer friends at fabulous book festivals. I was happy for them, of course. But I caught myself feeling some agitation. What was it? [...]

Turns out University of Texas-Austin is planning on allowing the carrying of weapons on campus starting August, 2016. Understandably, many students are less than thrilled (thank you, Austin [...]

I am one of the 41 million Americans in the U.S. today (out of roughly 319 million, or about 13 percent) who were born outside of the United States. One of the great themes of my life was been a [...]

I don’t normally have such a visceral reaction to a single episode of a television series that I vow to never watch it again. But it happened on Sunday. Last year, I watched Season 1 of The [...]

It was in kindergarten when my children first came home with the tales of active shooter drills. They didn’t call them that, of course. They’d say things like, “Today the [...]

As I write, most of my neighbors are running around with their hair on fire about The Big Hurricane that’s on its way. In a community still suffering from Sandy PTSD, any suggestion of a [...]