I KNOW—IT'S BEEN A WHILE! I didn’t really mean to stay away so long. Part of it was that I had to go into my cave and write. And part of it is that last fall, my sweetie and I dropped everything and fled to Scotland. And it’s been haunting me ever [...]
THERE’S AN IMAGE from one of those summer boat trips we took with my friend Becky and her family when our kids were young that always haunts me this time of year. Orcas Island, late August, walking along a lane above the water. (Somebody was probably complaining their feet hurt.) But what [...]
In summer the song sings itself. William Carlos Williams IT’S FINALLY SUMMER with a vengeance here in the Pacific Northwest after a dark, drippy June. It’s probably a good thing I didn’t post last month because it would have just been another rant about the weather! True to form, summer arrived here [...]
THE WALLED GARDEN HAD ITS second anniversary May 17 and once again, I’m feeling so blessed by all the love and support it’s gotten. I recently enjoyed zooming into the Between the Covers Book Club and talking with a lovely group of women meeting at a Barnes & Noble in Chico, California. [...]
T.S. ELIOT FAMOUSLY OBSERVED in The Waste Land that “April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” I remember my shock when I realized that the persona in this poem does not want spring to [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]