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The Texture of Voices Music is part of most people’s childhoods. I know that. I can’t say all but based on my forty-plus years on Earth, […]

Send Me Your Thunder in 50 Words Is May bringing you flowers? Longer work hours? Soapy showers? Our lilacs are in bloom, and my lord, are […]

When I googled synonyms for “Spring, the season”, the phrase Blackberry Winter appeared, and now I officially will never be the same. I love it. This photo is one I took last […]

Winter 2022 Dear Subscribers,  I’d like to reinvent my newsletter and blog for 2022 as one less about me– since I’m in a “many saucepans on […]

Hey friends. It’s a cold and rainy Memorial Day Weekend on the Jersey Shore, so here I am saying hi! Revisions for Italian Bones in the […]

Some of my favorite reads this year so far: Queen by Suzanne Crain Miller Brass by Xhenet Aliu Cattywampus by Ash Van Otterloo Caterpillar Summer by […]

The first week of February slapped me silly. Like knocked me down, tickled me until I couldn’t breathe, and even smooshed lots of snow in my […]

Greetings friends!  I hope this finds everyone safe and healthy. It hasn’t been exactly…easy. I would love to update all of you with my writing pursuits […]

We find ourselves having different days that match up with all kinds of things to make us happy. For me, in the early days of quarantine, […]

2019 was a solid year. I finally read the Harry Potter series. (Severus Snape is one of the best characters ever written anywhere, any time, by […]

I know, right? Am I out of breath? No. Do my legs hurt? Nope. Am I just too old for this? Hell no. It’s my brain […]

If you make art, you have to learn to deal with rejection. It doesn’t mean you can’t cry. It doesn’t mean you can’t throw things. But […]