In other words- This is a phrase I use a lot. And when I use it, I’m always seeking better or the right words, that

Silverfish and Books I don’t know why, but all my life I thought writing, and especially writing a book, or a poem, or a letter,

The Hip Hop of Writing If you’re a writer like me, reading and hearing about the ongoing feud between the Writers Guild of America (WGA)

April 2, 2022: Launch for Ancestors My first novel, Ancestors, took many years to finish. I started writing in 2007. The characters and plot evolved

Is Wokism Woke? Go to Alabama and ya better watch out The landlord’ll get ya, gonna jump and shout Scottsboro Scottsboro Scottsboro boys Tell ya

Teddy Bear Chollas I write this from the Anza Borrego State Park, a few hours’ drive northeast from San Diego, twenty-seven miles west of the

Grist for the Mill Today is New Year’s Eve, 2022. I’m sitting in my living room, paneled in redwood, the only original part of our

Ghosts, And What They Have to Teach Us Over the years as a psychotherapist, I have been asked more than several times if I believe

Ladies of the Canyons I write this from our cabin in the Sierras at Angora Lakes, 7400 feet above Lake Tahoe, on U.S. Forest Land.

Introduction to Ghost In 2011 I was visiting on the east coast and spent a few days in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, which was chartered in

Magical Realism Being a writer of fiction means you must define what kind of fiction you write, selecting what genre you fit into, so book

Southern Gothic I tell my husband at drink time that I’m going to write about southern gothic novels. He looks perplexed. “What’s that?” he asks.

Evening Rituals No one disagrees that rituals are important. And yet, we live in a culture where rituals seem to have fallen by the wayside.

The Magical Mystery Tour of Writing a Novel I assume every writer of fiction remembers that first toe-in-the-water moment when they wrote their first sentence