How to Have a Perfect Vacation

Tip # 1:  Don’t expect to have a perfect vacation. Travel, by its very nature is imperfect. It’s an adventure, but its not perfect. Neither is life, for that matter. There’s weather to contend with, traffic, transportation issues, other travelers and a host of other elements that are all out of your control. The only […]

Grand Vacation Get-Away.

I’ve been away on vacation and it was grand. I traveled to Southern California to see my family and friends and went to the Romance Writers (RWA) national conference. All of it was grand. I spent a lot of years living in So Calif, from the time I was in high school to about 13 […]

Writing Fatigue vs Sofa Spud.

I haven’t been around much lately, at least not here in my blog-pod. I’ve been home on my sofa. (I am not a couch potato, I’m a sofa spud. Sofa spuds are smaller and tastier, but with room to grow.)  I’ve had a bout of writing fatigue. Writing fatigue is real, it can happen to […]

Let the holidays begin.

We’re just days away from the official starting gate of the holiday season. Some would say it’s already there. This is a time when we often find there is too much to do and not enough time to do it all….. So I won’t – do it all. I’ll do what I can, what I […]