20 June 2017 I must ride the heat wave; and, at times, I must work with my happy ignorance, instead of working against it in the earnest...

The Writer Speaks: Art and the Artist It often amuses me, the idea that art just happens! It mystically comes winging out of the cloud of...

6 June 2017 This day began gray, overcast, chilly, but by noon it brightened to a glimmer of sunlight. I decided to wear a tropical...

During the summer of 2012, I told my Dear Friend: “I’m not making my fortune until there is massive tax reform. And I am not flying on...

Special Weather Briefing: How Do You Still Keep Your Job? “How many times can you be wrong and still keep your job?” It is a question...

One balmy evening last spring, I sat down on my leather couch, intent on enjoying the next story in A Medieval Storybook (selected and...

15 April 2017 Taxes were the primary reason why I was hectored, or bugged, by many much-older adults to get a better-paying job during...

In the course of human events, we all come upon real characters. How precisely does a writer create a fictional character? The answer is...

March 2017 Céad Míle Fáilte! The Feast of St. Patrick is enjoyed in my home as a religious event, a cultural commemoration and a...

In the life of every writer-mother and her scholar-daughter, there are countless emails that count! Late last February (2016), while I...

About ten years ago, I chanced upon a magazine article that opined to college graduates, “Go forth and forget everything that you have...

My essay, “Lessons from Jane Austen,” has been so popular that I decided, in all fairness to historic female English authors, to write an...

This holiday season, I offer frivolity and folksy gifts from writers for friends, fans and first-time readers of this website. I also...

Yesterday, we were oot and aboot, as the Scots would say. Two weeks of rain, fog, low clouds, high clouds, mid-level clouds and steamy...

Among my projects for this past year has been ongoing research for my medical novel, set in the American West in the late 1800s. SHADOW...

CONGRATULATIONS! SAN JOSE SHARKS - WESTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPS! It has been hard on me – not to feel the hope!! The family of Tomas Hertl...

This time of year is always an awakening of sorts for me, although I am often led to such awareness by previous realizations. And so it...

Christmas is a time for love. There are perhaps as many kinds of love as there are kinds of people, but love, in essence, is a...

A while back I watched a brief documentary about the modification or re-formatting of theater motion pictures for television viewing....

I suppose it was just a matter of time during this “eternal” recession (and the eternal “recovery”) before the free market became a...