Giving Back

I've talked a lot about gratitude in my posts over the years, I've noticed. Maybe because that's when I feel inclined to write. After all, it wouldn't be right to write about the times when I'm angry and frustrated and want to scream at the world. Rest assured, those times do exist. Like everyone else, [...]

The Never Expected and Always Unthinkable

If you’ve been following me for a while, odds are good that you know the health crisis we’ve been through over the last year as my husband faced a scary pancreatic cancer diagnosis last spring. The kind of diagnosis you’re not supposed to get at 43. It was awful. It was traumatic. And until this [...]

Slimming Down

Revision can be painful. Digging into the words you put so much effort into writing, not to mention deciding which of them need to go, can overwhelm a writer with fear. Which words do I cut? Filter words? Entire paragraphs? Scenes, even? What if cutting this particular scene is wrong? What if it changes the [...]