Indecision or Greed?

Doing  some soul-searching. I have two things that I’m vacillating on just now, Thanksgiving and author swag. WHAT?! My daughter will be off to the Navy after graduation. Thus, this is quite possibly the last Thanksgiving that we will be together as a family for...

It's the little things….

I have made a new discovery about myself since I’ve started writing regularly. I NEED to write, apparently, every day. When I’m at work and I don’t bring my notebook or flash drive, I end up mentally rearranging, rephrasing or rewording lines I’ve already written. I’m...

Procrastination's Price

I am the first to admit that I’m a procrastinator. I think we all are to a degree. The thing I have come to realize is that once I’ve procrastinated a spell, not only do I not have production, but it is harder and harder to get motivated to get back into...

Why we do what we do

Writer’s block, writer’s depression, procrastination…they are all very real things. They are frustrating, exhausting, and even humiliating things. So why continue? Here’s why…the mate came home last eve, one of their co-workers is a...

Raise them to be readers

We all have them, favorite pictures of our babies…be they traditional or fur. This is one of my favorites; I love that they have been buried in books, picture or otherwise, from before they could sit by themselves. As a writer, and a reader myself, it makes me...