Friends, Fealty, & Five-Star Reviews
I’m starting to notice a pattern with the reviews I’m posting on Amazon and Goodreads. It used to be easy. I had no problem explaining…
Guest Blogger Shanna Hatfield
This time I’m hosting a wonderful, zany author and fellow Women Writing the West member, Shanna Hatfield. Below is an essay on bravery, the subject…
Earthquakes, Bandits, & Romance in Old California
Writing is a calling. Even when words dangle just beyond reach like the old phonetic combinations that hung on wires stretched across the front of…
Becoming a Daughter
This is a piece I wrote while I was care-taking my mother-in-law. It’s for all care-takers who need to remember to breathe. This isn’t about…
John Lennon Had It Right
An unexpected gift of aging—the gift of waiting. Used to be, every thing had a time, and that time was yesterday, immediately or right now. Living…
The Power of One
For all his teachings, good works and radio shows, Bishop Fulton Sheen is best remembered for one statement: “It is better to light one candle…
Where is Your Spine, America? A Guest Blog by Laura Hollis, Professor at Notre Dame
I am not normally political, but I am a grandmother. I remember watching “Dr. Zhivago” and seeing him at the end of the movie meeting…
Don’t Call Me a Woman Driver!
On the road again…How many of us women deserve a set of trucker wings from all the hauling, towing and hair-raising treks we’ve managed behind…
A Case of Computer Obsession
When does the computer become an obsession and not a career tool? A fair question, and one my husband is asking as I sit in my…
Looking for Fame in All the Wrong Places
Wow. I’m so happy to be writing this. The event I have been working toward for the past five years is finally happening. I signed…