As the years pass I find myself valuing personal integrity and authenticity more and more. Sadly, these are qualities where it is easier to talk the talk than to walk the walk. How many times have we held back from being our true selves? Perhaps...
On Monday March 13th I published my first blog in two and a half very rough years, then I put the link up on Facebook, both on my personal and my author page. After that, I left it and went on with my week. To...
Hello, friends…I seem to be in a bit of a Nightwish tear right now. As I put together a Gryphon play list and in doing so, a manuscript for The Dragon in The Garden’s sooooooo long overdue sequel, these are the songs which speak- even...
This week’s song is “How’s The Heart?” by Nightwish off their new album Human Nature (which is AMAZING). I chose it for three reasons. 1.) It’s awesome- Go, Floor! Her vocals are at a new level! 2.) How’s the heart sums up our shared American...
This is a piece regarding my town and my neighborhood. It is a subject that I have wanted to write about for a while now. The grocery store that I shop at has men in front of it collecting for a charity most days of...
Last Holiday Season, my husband and son did something truly cool with their Boy Scout Troop. They spent a Saturday with the Turning Wheels group, assembling donated bikes for children who, without this gift, might not be receiving anything under the tree. In one day...
I would like to stress that I did not write this. A friend posted it to Facebook and I happened to read it. It made such an impression on me that I wanted to help spread its message: be kind to one another. We’re all...
Let me preface here, while this blog post is clearly going to be a complaint, I do not want to come across as the old lady saying, “In my day we walked barefoot in the snow twenty miles to school, uphill, both ways!” Because, that’s...
“The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It’s a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people. ” ~Frank James There are times when the Internet, and the...
Well, color me happy, yea team and go us! We win! On January 20th, 2012, Congress dropped both SOPA and PIPA. Thank you everyone for your support and for such an over whelming demonstration that the American public IS actually awake and paying attention. I...