Social Media: What Should You Say and How Should You Say It?
Let’s take a little quiz, just for fun: How much time do you spend on social media each day? Add in all the platforms you use, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and more. How much of your news do you get from social media? If you use social media as a news source, do you trust…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Be Curious!
“Be curious, not judgmental.” -Walt Whitman I heard this quote on the charming television show Ted Lasso on Apple TV the other night, and it struck a chord, especially during this time of significant change in our nation. The character Ted Lasso was responding to a man who was obnoxious and a bully by sharing…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Their brilliance continues to light the world
“There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.” – Hannah Senesh, poet I’ve been rising early in…
Read MorePsst… What Do You Think About My New Cover?
The House Guests, at bookstores in June 2021. Authors wait, hope and pray while a new cover is in the works. We don’t always have a lot of choices, but Mira’s cover art department made some welcome changes on this one between the initial concept and this final version. The book (June 2021) is set…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: “Courage is the most important of all virtues…”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou Who needs Halloween when there is so much to be afraid of every single day? I think we all feel a little like the cowardly lion struggling to find his inner courage. But…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: The Opposite of Love
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the Holocaust and a recipient of the Nobel Peace…
Read MoreWhat Makes A Good Cover? What Makes Us Pick Up a Book?
I don’t know about you, but after months of quarantine, I’m finding it hard to find anything to say. These days our house is much quieter than usual. Proman and I have little new to share because we’re together all the time. No exciting pickle ball games to recount, no lunches or Mah Jongg games…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
“Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly, To celebrate tomorrow’s holiday (known by some as Columbus Day and by others as Indigenous Peoples Day) I…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: About Writing…And Life
“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good…
Read MoreThe Way Back Home
Book Two of my Homecoming Series is now available. I’m delighted to say that The Way Back Home, book two of my homecoming series, is now available for purchase. You’ll find it at all your favorite online bookstores as an eBook, plus the print version at Amazon. That link takes you to my webpage to…
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