As a mom to two brilliant and successful sons who are married to wonderful (brilliant, accomplished, lovely) women, I’d been wanting a grandchild for a long time. I’ve never been one to push my wants on others, though, so I kept my wishes private (at least with my kids), and prayed that if it was…
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Favorite Books of 2024
Like many authors, I read … a lot (or I used to before my twin granddaughters were born about six months ago!) 🙂 So when the folks at Shepherd asked me to share my three favorite reads of 2024, it was a tough choice. I’ve been trying to branch out recently into different genres and…
RIP, Toby
Country music star Toby Keith died earlier this week following a long battle with stomach cancer. My heart is broken. It’s rare for me to write about music, but next to writing and reading, listening and singing along to music are my next favorite things to do. My tastes have changed over the years, but…
Desperate Alliance – My Two Cents
In this romantic suspense, the first book in a new series, art restoration expert Annalise Quintrell discovers the theft of a valuable piece of art from the museum where she works. Fearing she’ll be suspected if she alerts her boss, she turns to the only person she can think of to help. It’s bad enough…
Book to Screen – My Picks
I’m one of those readers who will devour my favorite authors’ new titles as soon as I can get my hands on them. I’ve printed reading lists to keep track of where I am in their series. (Some of my favorites are so prolific! I can’t keep up.) But I also love discovering new authors,…
It’s deja vu all over again
It’s been a bit more than a decade since I finished and sold my first full-length novel (romantic suspense Surrender to Sanctuary). It was a shock to me at the time that anyone would want to publish it (it’s a bit on the kinky side)! But I was lucky, and thus started my career…
Dear gods of technology, back off!
I took today off from my regular job so I could get some things done — Run to the post office (which isn’t open during hours that any working person can conveniently get to); Have lunch with hubby (who also took the day off); Clean my office (“clean” being open to interpretation); and Make…
And spring comes at last
I don’t spend much time outside — too many writerly things to do on the weekend — but I was walking outside the other day (at the day job) and realized I was no longer wearing the heavy winter parka, gloves on my hands and scarf wrapped around half my head. In fact, I’d pared…
Is it spring yet?
I’m not sure when I became such a wimp about winter weather. It might have been the year when my kids were in grade school and we had 14 ice storms over the course of one winter. (We lived in New Jersey at the time, the land of the “wintery mix” one day, and a…
Day 13 – Are you grateful for what you have?
I’m starting to really dislike this book. Today’s message is about awakening the gratitude in your heart for your many blessings. That’s not what’s causing the downward spiral of my enjoyment of the book. That’s a wonderful message, one I try to adhere to. What’s bothering me is my impression that the author was…