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January 31, 2020
LIFE LESSONS FROM THE GARDEN

Published on January 31, 2020 16:08
January 4, 2020
LOBBING THOSE BALLS

By now my 2020 to-do list should...
Published on January 04, 2020 14:53
December 1, 2019
A PEEK UNDER THE COVER
To answer the question, "What's it about?", here's a short blurb about the story line of Dancing Between the Beats. A bit more info can be found under the NOVEL tab. The book's narrative unfolds from three main perspectives:
Twenty-four-year old Paige Russell, still grieving the death of her single mother, defines herself as an orphan. Her obsession to find the father she never knew takes her to Tucson, AZ, where she settles in as the newest ballroom instructor at Desert DanceSport. But Paige’...
Twenty-four-year old Paige Russell, still grieving the death of her single mother, defines herself as an orphan. Her obsession to find the father she never knew takes her to Tucson, AZ, where she settles in as the newest ballroom instructor at Desert DanceSport. But Paige’...
Published on December 01, 2019 10:00
November 12, 2019
TURNING THE COLOR WHEEL

But home to me—the place I grew up—will always be the redbrick house on Harris Place in the suburbs of Ottawa. The neighborhood was so new, old farmhouses and fields of sheep...
Published on November 12, 2019 09:44
October 15, 2019
ABOUT THE PROCESS

Published on October 15, 2019 14:14
September 14, 2019
A LONG GESTATION

It was eight years ago, just after my mother passed, that I wrote the first rough draft of DBTB. Eight years is one hell of a long gestation period; elephants, move over. Trust me...
Published on September 14, 2019 00:00
August 25, 2019
shredding summer

The only southern Arizonans out and about in midsummer are the bright-eyed, early-morning people, of which I am not one. Summer is when I hermit (yes, in my world, hermit is a verb ) Venturing out in the pounding heat, when the interior temperature of a parked car can reach 150 I-can’t-breathe-degrees, is right up there on my “No Bloody Way” scale with driving through a desert monsoon storm. I concede that the dramatic skies and bolts of lightning are spectacular, but. . . . No. Can’t deal...
Published on August 25, 2019 13:30
July 29, 2019
UNFORTUNATE CONVENTIONS - SOAPBOX RANT

Let’s start the list with one of the worst offenders: Free Gift. These two words together make me want to strangle the marketing pros who came up with this idiotic combination of words. Isn’t a gift,...
Published on July 29, 2019 19:54
June 26, 2019
THE NO-SUBJECT POST

I thought about discussing the...
Published on June 26, 2019 15:15
June 2, 2019
PUSH DOWN AND TWIST

“So what’s she on about now?”
Well, if you must ask, packaging, and let’s not forget, warning labels: my pet peeves of our modern world. Our government’s attempt to protect us from ourselves, and to protect manufacturers from law suits, has far exceeded an acceptable level of ludicrous government bureaucracy.
Let’s start with shrink wrap. Take the 11 x 14 frame I just bought. It was so tightly wrapped in impervious layers of plastic, I couldn’t fit the tip of my pointiest knife...
Published on June 02, 2019 13:25