Only three more months left of 2023. I still have so many projects I want to work on but so little time. Hopefully now that the annual recer...

How much do you think about the characters from your stories? For me, some of them (like the Season Avatars) take up more of my attention th...

My husband and I have been working on planning our estate. It's relatively easy to find a lawyer to prepare a will, a trust, and other d...

  This month, the Insecure Writer's Support Group celebrates its twelfth birthday. If you're not familiar with them, you can learn m...

 Here are a few quick notes about my current writing projects: I'm still waiting to hear back from my cover artist regarding the cover f...

Every month, I like to do a diversity read, a book by someone from a different background than me. I consider it a way to support diversity ...

Traveling and living in space will pose a variety of technical challenges, but there are plenty of other social challenges that space will p...

I liked reading the book Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman when it first came out, and I enjoyed watching the adaptation of the ...

 Summer seems to leave as quickly as it comes. Here we are at August already, which means the school year will be starting soon for many chi...

I wasn't into Barbies or most dolls when I was a girl; I preferred books and stuffed animals. I'm also not into military history the...

I think it's been a while since I posted a project update, so here's a quick summary of what I've been working on recently: I su...

At the end of June, my family and I took a vacation for the first time in several years. We divided our time between Philadelphia and Gettys...

We're officially halfway through the year! I hope you're having a good one and that you've made progress toward your goals. Sinc...

I'm on vacation with my family this week, so this post will be short. We're almost halfway through 2023, which means it's time f...

In honor of Pride Month, I thought I'd discuss how my understanding of sexuality and gender has evolved since I first came up with the S...

One of the books I'm currently reading is called The House Witch by Delemhach (though I may be done with it by the time this post goes ...

Welcome back to the Insecure Writers' Support Group! If you're not familiar with them, you can learn more about them on their websit...

I started this blog shortly after I got married in 2005, so if you go way back to the beginning, you'll find posts about my pregnancy an...

How do you discover new books you want to read? For a long time, I was mostly dependent on bookstores and libraries. These days, I most ofte...

One of my favorite spring activities is going to Lilacia Park to view--and more importantly, smell--the lilacs. They also have a lot of lov...