• Fully bloomed pink rose with orange center against faded green leaves and a wood fence

    Summer Blooms

    My neighbor across the street wants flowers blooming in her front yard from spring until the end of summer. To do so, she’s planted dozens of tulips, daffodil, California poppies, wildflowers, and other random bloomers. Her yard is bright and colorful for months. Autumn is…

  • February Notes

    It’s been a minute since I’ve been here. I’ll be blogging more often to keep folks updated, so here we go! First bit of news: HOUSE IMMORTAL (ebook) is now re-released with a new cover! Book two and three (INFINITY BELL and CRUCIBLE ZERO) also…

  • First Sunrise of Autumn

    What a beautiful start to fall! I ran outside barefoot to catch this photo this morning and didn’t feel chilled. (We have cooled from our summer temperatures, but September has been mild and on the warm side.) The weather guessers say we’ll have a day…

  • canning jars wearing knitted hats.

    Plum Jam-bor-ee

    When I was young, I remember my grandmother making some kind of delicious plum jam concoction. It had walnuts in it, maybe some other fruit (pineapple? raisins?) and wasn’t called jam. She only made it the one year, but I remember loving it. Cue to…

  • Large Rock in the ocean, blue sky and clouds beyond, sandy beach and red car in foreground.

    And a one, and a two…

    Do Three Things make an update? They do! ONE: WAYWARD DEVILS, book 4 in the Souls of the Road series is off to the copy editor! (sound the victory tubas!) This book has been a real nut to crack, partly because it swerved mid-writing to…

  • Road Trip in a Nutshell

    A couple weeks ago, we did a one-week about 3,000 mile RV road trip through Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona. I was looking forward to visiting Sedona for the first time, and it did not disappoint. We took a Vortex tour, had lunch downtown, and…

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