An Hour A Day

Dear friends, I have been writing a middle-grade children's novel set in a cottage like the one I live in with my sweetheart, on a stree...

February was an intense writing month. For me, "intense" means faithfully writing for a (predawn) hour a day, every day, up in my ...

My ONLY goal for 2025 is: "stuff my creative life as full as I can of JOY and PLAY." I am here to report that this is turning out ...

I had lunch yesterday with a dear friend I hadn't seen for a long while. "Where was your new year's blog post?" she asked....

So I was going to a little family reunion in Dallas last weekend. I love to work on planes; I love filing my little backpack with tempting p...

It's not quite winter yet according to the calendar. But the year is drawing to a close, which means end-of-year literary accolades are ...

 So now it's October, the most autumnal of autumn months, "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" (Keats). We made a visit t...