Crime and Punishment was written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1866. The book is fiction, meaning, not a true story. But I’ve often wondered how the author could’ve developed a character […]

Isn’t it a relief when you cross a major—always-gnawing-at-the-back-of-your-mind—task off your to-do list? Such was the case for me today. I came back from my remote little place in Hawaii […]

Funk had a vision. What is happening! Is the world really coming to an end this time? My boy is as opposite from me as it gets. He’s a head […]

I never set out to be a “writer,” and my kids would absolutely gag if they ever heard me say that I was. Actually, I don’t consider myself a writer, […]

The gods really love horsing around with me. I’m telling you, it’s like I brighten their day reacting to their pranks. When I woke up today – still in that […]

Goodbye today. See you again tomorrow. Sweet dreams everyone.

Can you imagine being afraid when this is what you’re looking at? Funk calls me a skydiver afraid of heights. A really good idea will come to me—like how to […]

This was like birthing all four of my children at once. Getting the cover just right for the first in my 3-book C’mon Funk Series was far more difficult than […]

I wasn’t kind today. And I sort of don’t feel bad about it, even when it goes against the promise that I made to the universe. It was cold and […]

The Goddess expressing herself on the winter solstice in DC. Made even more magical with the tunes of the Grateful Dead playing in the background.