With the end of the year in sight, my blog here on my author website celebrates its first birthday on Monday, December 12. While I’ve had a blog on this website for over four years, this is the updated, more focused version of it. If you’ve been around my website since the beginning, you may…
Are you single, or have you been single sometime in the distant past? If you have, then you know you have to think about the things that you want in a relationship. For the past 12 years, I have been single again. I have dated some, but nothing has ever become serious. I haven’t had…
Today is Halloween. It’s an evening of taking your kids trick-or-treating. It’s also a time of going to haunted houses and getting scared by the craziness of what happens there. Halloween is also referred to as All Hallows Eve or All Saints Eve. It’s a day to remember the dead. Whatever Halloween means to you,…
Back in 1981, I discovered Rick Springfield. I loved his song, “Jessie’s Girl,” which hit number one in August that year. About the time that song hit the top of the charts, I figured out he was Dr. Noah Drake on on the soap opera, General Hospital. That soap opera help him push his music…
Did you know your favorite writer or author probably has a playlist? Yes, that’s right. A playlist helps us write and get those words out on the page. It helps motivate and inspire us to write those words you love to read. Until I joined the 10 Minute Novelists group, I had never really thought…
The beach is my happy place. Seriously. I had no idea until a few years ago how much going to the beach brings out the happiness I long to feel every day. Maybe that’s what this world needs more of. More people need to visit the beach. Maybe we’d have more happiness in our world…
Do you ever dream about interesting places you would like to visit? I love traveling so I do dream of places here in the United States as well as a few places far off. I enjoy the beach the most. However, historic places also intrigue me. As you can tell from the list below, the…