I confess, I’ve been a bit down lately in regards to my author life. I feel so invisible online. I feel like my books are invisible on the shelves. I’ve tried harder to make my presence known and yet every time I do the things that other people say work for them, they don’t work for me. And I don’t even mean book sales. I just mean getting my...

Saturday was supposed to be the end of our bathroom remodel. I was going to take pictures, create a cool before/after collage to post and relax. But it was not to be. Right at the end, literally the very end, we had an issue with the old sink plumbing while trying to hook up the new fixtures. Thankfully, there is now tile on the bathroom floors and in the closet, for...

I’m getting ready to put my house back together after the bathroom is finished. (Look for the “reveal” post next week!) Then I need desperately to clean the dust caked on every surface! Graduation and all its activities are ramping up now. Awards ceremonies, recitals. Each one the last of its kind. My in-laws arrive on the 29th. My sister and her...

The convergence of a master bath redo and the revisions of my first draft of my 4th book collided in my life recently. As often happens, the collision cracked open new vistas for my mind to mull over. Of all that I pondered in the dark hours of the night, this truth seemed to be the most profound: work is what happens in the middle. In both the bathroom remodel and...

We spent the better part of the past weekend with our daughter in Louisiana. Although she will not graduate until December, this was her final Phi Mu Carnation Ball (her sorority formal) as an active member. Last year we came to the formal (parents are invited for the dinner and awards then “dismissed” before the real party!) and loved watching our girl...