We question ourselves. What have we done to so affront nature?We interrogate and worry God.Are you there? Are you there, really?Does the covenant you made with us still hold?
Into this climate of fear and apprehension,Christmas...
Willa Cather once said "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."
I've started a series of short fiction based on this concept. ...
I didn’t know much about Elizabeth Edwards, probably what most of us knew, the main events of her life since her husband came to national attention in 2003. But I can’t think of a person in my lifetime who handled adversity...
A fellow writer and blogger, Suzy Turner, sent me a lovely note the other day, bestowing on me the honor of The Versatile Blogger award! Suzy's blog can be found at http://suzyturner.blogspot.com/. It features...
Is anyone as excited as I am about the upcoming movie version of The Great Gatsby? Recently, it was announced that Carey Mulligan was cast as Daisy Buchanan, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire...
Most writers were influenced by certain books, books that either changed the way they looked at writing or the world in general or if you were lucky enough, books that changed everything. For me, one book stands above...
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” –Cicero
Thanksgiving Day, a wonderful opportunity to feel and express gratitude for abundance in all of its forms. Thank y...
I’ve been giving some thought to the opening section of my novel The Qualities of Wood. The book is, as I like to call it, a slow simmer, and in the opening section what we have is a sort of panoramic view of the setting,...
I’ve been “building my online presence” for a couple of weeks now. I’ve started this blog (which I’m enjoying more than I thought I would) and put together a very rudimentary website. I’ve joined Facebook, which...
We are approaching the 110th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's death, which occurred on November 30, 1900. He's known for his plays, including The Importance of Being Earnest,
his stint in prison for "gross indecency" with...
If you weren’t aware that November is National Novel Writing Month, you are now! I’ve signed up at www.nanowrimo.org, where each year they challenge thousands of writers to get off the couch (or blog), and finally finish...
This is the actress K.T. Stevens, who portrayed Vanessa Prentiss on the early years of the soap opera The Young and the Restless. Vanessa appeared on the...
So I’m working on my new novel the other day and as that process often goes, I found myself meandering through my “notebook.” I say “notebook” because what this actually...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
