Meditation on Making a Piecrust, or A Slice of Life

I am, I can say with little fear of contradiction, a confident and accomplished home cook. I have long perused recipes for my bedtime reading. I’m unafraid to tackle complicated recipes, to hunt down hard to find ingredients, or to use utensils that never graced my mother’s kitchen. Perhaps most daring of all, I will…

Why Yes, I Did the Timewarp Again.

Rocky Horror Picture Show is still going strong after 18 years and has become standard Halloween fare throughout much of the country.  While I have been a fan of the movie, I have never had the opportunity to see a shadow cast performance until last week.   I started the evening freezing my well-covered butt off…

A Season For Planning

Maybe it is because I have spent so much of my life living the school system year, but September brings about many of the activities usually associated with New Year. I make my new resolutions, plan my year, do my “Fall Cleaning”. Fall is the beginning of the holiday season. My energy returns after a summer of…

Weird Weather, Confused Flowers, and the Nibbler: My Summer So Far

It’s June and I have finally put away the last of my winter clothes and will hope for the best.  After all, last Saturday the temperatures were in the mid 90s and the rest of the weekend saw the temperature stay in the low 50s.  How are we supposed to find room for clothes that…

An Honest Look at Goals

It’s January and every blog and article seems to be suggesting ways to set goals and follow through. Apparently many people are like me. We set goals and may even write them down. Then we never look at them again. With trepidation I looked back at my 2017 writing goals: Finish and publish Wolves Blog…

Waterfire and Food

A few weeks ago my partner and I joined the Whole Life Challenge.  There are sections for nutrition, hydration, exercise, mobility, lifestyle, and reflection and one earns points for each.  Involvement is similar to playing a game. For the two of us, we gave up all flours, dairy, and sugar in the nutrition section.  We’ve…

The Only Love There Is

As a writer of Urban Fantasy,  I live to tell stories that transport you to a super- natural world, one that intrigues you, touches your heart, and entices you to return over and over again. I also hope to give you something to think about.  The characters you meet are a motley bunch of beings:…

Summer? Time.

I was at my chiropractor's the other day, lying on my stomach having an electric current streamed through my neck (not as bad as it sounds), listening to music. I can always count on them to play an interesting variety. You're as likely to hear classic rock as you are 50's hits or contemporary hip…

How Much is Enough: Puppy Problems

I have three dogs now. Ms. Chlorine Bacon-Skin  aka Chloe, my badass bossy brindle. Miss Muffintop aka Molly, my round lovable snuggling cupcake. And Tobalicious Toby, my Italian Greyhound mix who is, at best, about 1/4 of the size of each of my other dogs. For some reason that is likely related to their "rescue" status,…

Twenty-nine Days

A few months ago a friend gave me the book 29 Gifts by Cami Walker. She thought that I might enjoy it since I like “New Age stuff”. I started reading it recently because my mood has been in such a rotten place. I'd hoped the book would encourage me. The author has multiple sclerosis, is…