I’M GOING TO DO SOMETHING I promised myself I would try not to do—and that is use a blogpost for shameless self-promotion. This Saturday, March 16, I’ll be joining a group of women writers from Washington state at the Woodinville branch of the King County Library, to celebrate Women’s History Month with [...]
IT’S A GOOD THING I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, because I’d have already bombed it: my pledge (to myself) to blog once a month in 2024. Alas, here we are almost to Valentine’s Day and I’m just getting to my Book Oscars for 2023. In my defense, I have to [...]
IT’S A FEW DAYS after Christmas and I have seen (almost) all my dear ones, opened all the lovely presents, and eaten all the delicious food I can hold. And once again, thinking of all the gifts 2023 held for me, I find myself filled with gratitude. In April, I wrote about [...]
THE PACE OF CHANGE in our world has been dizzying of late and, as I often do when I feel unmoored, I’ve been taking comfort in seasonal rituals. There’s something that feels so right about tuning into the divine rhythms of the seasons, the ones set in place to remind us as humans [...]
I'M DELIGHTED TO SHARE with you that The Walled Garden recently won several lovely awards! I was beyond excited to find out it was the gold winner in the Romance category of the 2022 Foreword Indies Book Awards, as well as a gold winner in the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in [...]
ONE YEAR AND ONE WEEK ago, my lifelong dream of being a published author finally came true! My debut novel, The Walled Garden, entered the world, kicking off an amazing year of opportunities and encounters I could never have imagined. I want to highlight some of them here, and to say thank [...]
I JUST GOT BACK from a walk that perfectly captured this cold, wet spring we've been having, and I keep thinking about these lines from one of my favorite Robert Frost poems (Two Tramps in Mud Time): The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with [...]
IT'S JANUARY, AND if there’s a better month for snuggling inside with a good book and a cup of tea, I don’t know what it is! I’ve recently been inspired to think about my favorite books of last year in terms of Oscar award categories by the fabulous Elsie @ Tea and [...]
I'M FINDING IT REALLY DIFFICULT to gather my thoughts about England, a place I’ve been in love with since I saw Mary Poppins when I was six years old. During the pandemic, when I was feeling nostalgic for all the trips I wasn’t taking, I tried to find the journal from my [...]
“SUMMER AFTERNOON—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language,” wrote Henry James in The Portrait of a Lady. It’s a perfect summer afternoon here in the Northwest—FINALLY—after the rainiest June ever, and I’m in a mood to appreciate it. Wait—I’m wrong! I just [...]