One Thing That’s Always True: The Sea is Always Salty…
In honor of our three weeks of freezing Alaska temperatures, a short memoir of my last trip to the beach. Enjoy! I was thinking of the time we took our daughter’s dog Beans to the beach with us. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining, and this beach was teeming with people and…
The View Is Different From Here
How looking forward into the last years of my life is freeing me from the inertia of the first fifty… I’ve been thinking an awful lot lately about the way I look at my life story. More specifically, I’m examining the way my point of view is constantly changing as I get older, and how…
Upcoming Novel!
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GIFT IDEAS for the AUTHOR in your LIFE!
GREAT GIFT IDEAS for the hard-to-buy-for WRITER Honestly, we aren’t hard to buy for… are we? Us writers are simple creatures, yes? Prone to flights of fancy and far-off looks, dreaming of the day when we have a 500 square-foot office with three types of desk and floor-to-ceiling shelves full of great reads and a…
Following the Dopamine
There’s a saying in the ADHD world that is kinda new, but it applies here, and in everyone’s world: FOLLOW THE DOPAMINE… The idea is tied to the old adage, “Do what you love, and the money will follow.” But it’s a little deeper than that, too. Even without the money aspect of it, this…
Older Than My Older Brother…
Happy birthday in heaven, Bub! It’s so hard for me to believe you’ve been gone for six years now. In some ways those years have dragged by with excruciating slowness. In other ways, it has flown. On February 17, 2017, you left so suddenly it took my breath away. Though I have no regrets about…
Lying to Myself
I am an author. The aforementioned statement isn’t exactly true… yet. Though I have been a writer for most of my life, I have mostly written for myself. I enjoy telling stories, imagining fictitious people and places and situations. I am also driven to write, motivated by a phantom muse who whispers in my ear,…
Losing You, Becoming Me
A little over two months ago, my father passed away. Dad was 76, had metastatic skin cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and diabetes. He was ill, and he was old, and so it should not have been a shock to me. But it was. My father was the strongest, hardest working man I ever knew.…
Am I A Better Person Than I Was Last Year?
2022. I’m pretty sure we all thought we’d be flying around in our cars and skating on air like Marty McFly by now. I, for one, hadn’t given much thought to what life would be like when I was middle-aged. I can tell you this: I certainly didn’t think we would be swinging into the…
Meet the Parents
Last week, I picked my parents up at the airport in Anchorage and welcomed them to their new life in Alaska! Imagine that; selling your home and nearly everything in it and moving nearly three thousand miles away, in your seventies! My parents were always daredevils, never afraid to start over for any reason, and…
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