I’d like to announce that the next book in my Portals Series is now available on Kindle! Like all of my novellas currently, this one is only available as an e-book. But if I garner enough interest, I can and will make them paperbacks. An ancient foe, a new beginning. As a druid of the […]
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Research
I owe a great deal of credit for my writing skills to my parents, especially my mother. When I was very little, I would make up stories in my head and tell them to her. She encouraged me to write them down. So I did. Often in crayon. These stories were often illegible since my […]
Productivity
I once had a discussion with an acquaintance over how much sleep a person needs. He was convinced that only “lazy” people get the recommended eight hours or more of sleep. His argument…. Imagine how much more one could accomplish in their day if they shaved even an hour of sleep off of their schedule? […]
Gratitude
I am starting out by saying I am not writing this post looking for fame or pats on the back. I write this because I feel led to write this. A year ago, I made the decision to quit a job I was floundering in. A year ago, I had interviewed and accepted a position […]
Advice….
I have heard a great deal of writing advice over the years. The ones that seem to stick out the most in my mind though are the writing advices given to me by my teachers of so long ago. In middle school, I had a teacher who drummed it into my head that words like […]
Music
I have always loved music. I have loved to sing. When I was little, I would sing at the top of my lungs and often made up my own songs. I have sung in multiple choirs, often as a soprano and second soprano. Until the pandemic, I sang in my church choir. But I have […]
Accomplishments
I’ve long deleted the message, but a few years ago I was told via a text from someone I thought I was close to that I had no accomplishments of my own, so I was hanging on to those made by others as if they were mine. In reality, I was extremely happy for this […]
Cold and Thaw
It’s winter in Iowa, as I have already blogged in posts. We had a mild December. It was 70 degrees one day and Christmas Day was a beautiful upper-30s (F) kind of day. We got used to the weather, which spoiled us. But 2022 has come in like a lion. Last week it REALLY came […]
The end of a season
Earlier today, I finally took down my Christmas decorations. I have friends who take them down on the 26th of December. They are quite religious with it too. The holiday is over and they are done with Christmas. I have friends that leave them up as long as they can bear. One year, I was […]
Cats
I have a love for cats. I always have. When I was growing up, my family only had two cats as household pets. We had a cat named Tigger when I was a baby, so I don’t remember him much. The other cat we had was a rough and tumble gray burly thing my mother […]
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