Category Archives: Short Pieces and Good Stuff

QUICK INTRO: I’ve been mulling over ways to enrich my site with more personal and visual content. One day, while staring at my computer bag with its colorful assortment of buttons and pins, I thought about my post from last September in which I shared one of my old library loan lists. I called itContinueContinue reading “KMBM: Know Me By My Buttons!”

[Edit 6/28/19: This series is being reworked for special distribution and is no longer available online. Please follow my site for more information in the coming months!] Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone for your patience as I worked to get Episode 6 of ROYAL just right! I hope you find it compelling andContinueContinue reading “Episode 6 of ROYAL is Now Live!”

Good morning to both of my loyal ROYAL readers! Here is a quick update on this month’s episode of The Recipients of the Years of Amelia Layne. When I decided to publish ROYAL as a free online series, the first three episodes were written and mostly polished and ready to go, and the fourth episodeContinueContinue reading “Update for ROYAL: March 2019”

[Edit 6/28/19: This series is being reworked for special distribution and is no longer available online. Please follow my site for more information in the coming months!] I am happy to announce that episode five of The Recipients of the Years of Amelia Layne(ROYAL for short) is now available!  If you’re new to Amelia’s story,ContinueContinue reading “Episode Five of ROYAL is Up!”

[Edit 6/28/19: This series is being reworked for special distribution and is no longer available online. Please follow my site for more information in the coming months!] Welcome to 2019! Are you ready to get started on your New Year’s Read-o-lutions? Start here with Episode Four of The Recipients of the Years of Amelia LayneContinueContinue reading “Episode Four of ROYAL Now Available!”

I can’t sleep. Again. It’s not horribly late, but it’s been more than two hours since I turned out the lights.  My spouse lies next to me, emitting his typical sleeping song of raspy breathing and light snoring as I wait for the chorus to end.  Finally, I reach over and hold his nose toContinueContinue reading “Sirens in the Night”

[Edit 6/28/19: This series is being reworked for special distribution and is no longer available online. Please follow my site for more information in the coming months!] Great news for those online during Cyber Monday: episode three of The Recipients of the Years of Amelia Layne (ROYAL for short) is now available! If you aren’t alreadyContinueContinue reading “Episode Three of ROYAL Now Available”

I am crazy-proud to announce that–after more than a year of drafting, critiquing, writing, editing, soliciting, formatting, and polishing—my writing support group has released our second short-story anthology! INTERSECTIONS is now available in paperback and digital download on Amazon, and all proceeds for online and in-store sales benefit the Literacy Council of Frederick, Maryland. Members of the Frederick Writers’ Salon hadContinueContinue reading “New Anthology Release from Frederick Writer’s Salon”

Many, many months ago, I picked up a box of Tazo tea at the grocery store and read the label, expecting to find a simple and succinct write-up on the ingredients. This is what it said: I should have known better. Tazo is a fancy-pants tea company founded in Portland, which is now part of the Starbucks company (Tazo,ContinueContinue reading “When Tea Companies Hire Authors for Package Design”