• What’s Not to Love About College Team Nicknames?

    With the NCAA Basketball Tournament in full-court press these days, it’s easy for me to pick teams, even though my favorites lost early and are no longer in contention. I had hoped for a good game between the Akron Zips and the Zags (okay, technically Gonzaga’s team is actually called…

  • New Book for Fellow Writers!

    New Book for Fellow Writers! Years ago I devoted two full years of my life to obtaining an MFA degree in Creative Writing — a combination of workshops and standard classes. Two years of reading and writing (and teaching, to help pay my way). I went into some serious debt…

  • Writing? Publishing?

    Awhile back I wrote about some problems I was having with Lulu, my long-time, go-to print-on-demand platform. While many of those problems have been resolved, some linger, despite some helpful intervention by a particularly attentive customer service rep. It was so frustrating my very supportive husband found himself asking why…

  • Words Matter

    If you’ve ever wondered whether what you write matters, if words actually count, you have all the evidence you need in the events of Wednesday this week, the most prominent of many examples we’ve all witnessed. The insurgents who swarmed our nation’s Capitol have been listening to spoken words, reading…

  • The Book Saga Continues…

    …but the good news, they’re back! Last I checked, all of my ebooks have reappeared on Amazon, though they’ve gone missing at some of the other online booksellers 😦 It’s great to know that RVers who want to gift their fellow RVing friends with an ebook by sharing the fun…