The hard-learned lesson that for me was impossible to be told and had to be experienced…and remembered. While I will be the first to...

Resisting organization in your creative process and why that might be good.. I belong to several groups of writers, who meet to discuss...

The value of choosing your confidantes carefully. For all involved. We all make hundreds of decisions everyday that we don’t really think...

An example of balance to guide you… For me, parenting has been an experience where the learning curve is commensurate with human...

Do we repeat our stories because we don’t always know what we want to say but we need to try to say it? In every family there are lessons...

How our longing to place ourselves in a story can lead us down twisty paths Every day I walk for an hour in my house- I don’t own a...

What Happens in the Bubble: Writing in the Pandemic Demands Subterfuge and Lying ~These are a series of posts about my experience living...

What happens when you read a book and think its meh but you fall in love with a side plot… A quick note to any new readers- in these...

I know what I am supposed to get out of a book, but this is what I was really thinking… I am starting this blog post to open up...

A Siberian Memoir reminds us that leaving our Covid bubbles might be bumpy... First, you need to know that due to both pre-existing...

I believe that my dreams are my sub-conscious trying to finagle me into seeing myself and my life in more honest ways. Sometimes....

I want to take today to talk a little about the incredibly talented and amazing woman who I am lucky enough to have won as a sister when...

It occurs to me as I violently reject every thought that I want to share through the gauntlet of topics I have voluntarily taken off the...

A few weeks back I shared a story about the dangers of maraschino cherries and George Washington and one boy's heroic efforts to save my...

[warning- this blog post falls into the category that I like to call "why no one really wants to watch a tv show about what marriage is...

Anyone who has worked in the service industry has an opinion about customer service, broadly speaking. I spent years working in my...

hap·haz·ard /ˌhapˈhazərd/ adjective lacking any obvious principle of organization ***DISCLAIMER*** though I am going to be comparing...

There are some experiences you look back on from your childhood as an adult, and you realize how weird they really were, especially...

In response to the College Bribery Scandal, there has been a ton of press about the newest pop-culture parenting insult: snowplow...

Imagine this: you are someone with strong opinions and an external processor who enjoys sharing your thoughts with other people and...