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Total Trust

The feelings that erupt upon meeting your first grandchild create emotions you could never have fathomed, even in your wildest dreams. Others who entered this stage in life ahead of you tried to prepare you for this onslaught, but all of their sage advice was for naught. The moment you laid eyes on this tinyContinue reading “Total Trust”

Loss

I was raised to never use four letter words. Sixty-three years later, I still try not to use them. However, there is one four letter word that makes all of the other words pale in comparison. “Loss” is perhaps the cruelest word in our vocabulary. Mainly because too often it is placed at the endContinue reading “Loss”

Denouement

Denouement. What a fancy word for the resolution of a story! Finding the right conclusion for a plot line always plagues me. Constantly. Did I do it successfully? Or did I hang my laundry out on someone else’s line to dry? Did I leave too much for the reader, forcing them to imagine their ownContinue reading “Denouement”

Close Call

It almost happened today while on a thousand mile drive to Florida: that life-flashing-before-one’s-eyes moment. Only it did not happen. It could not happen. Because I was at the wheel and too preoccupied for any sort of retrospective. Instead of an actual life review experience, I did have an instantaneous recollection of two past near-accidents.Continue reading “Close Call”

Unblocking

Writing is a daunting task. Attempting to weave words into a coherent and interesting combination is like a composer organizing notes in a unique and previously unused manner. Whether working on a speech, a paper or the next novel, the worst part is the first sentence. It sets the tone and can propel a readerContinue reading “Unblocking”

Words

Words. Spoken, they have the power to calm, console and reassure. Alternatively, they have the ability to crush. Once words are liberated, the speaker often finds themself relieved, perhaps with a lessened burden. However, once spoken, words released can never be reclaimed. The recipient of spoken words may feel pacified. Or tormented. Perhaps inadvertently. PerhapsContinue reading “Words”

Losing and Finding

“In every losing there will be some kind of a finding. There always is. Sometimes you have to wait for it, but it will come. In the end, you will discover that there is a perfect balance between what one loses and what one finds.” Those words were spoken by Mary Reynolds in The RuleContinue reading “Losing and Finding”

The Book Within

Remember that Seinfeld episode when Cramer publishes a coffee table book about coffee tables that also becomes its own coffee table? Well, that is kind of what The Rule of Thirds, my newest novel in the Things Come in Threes series is like. Throughout the novel, two teenaged girls assist a little girl in theContinue reading “The Book Within”

The Gift of Healing

We live on top of a hill, surrounded by woods. Countless wild animals pass through, en route from the stream and ponds below to the sanctity of the forest. We have been visited by deer, fox, raccoons, possums, groundhogs, rabbits, coyotes and on the rare occasion even a bear! The same pair of mallards arrivesContinue reading “The Gift of Healing”

Contemplating Reincarnation

Not exactly sure when I started to fully believe that our souls have the capacity to return. A few years ago, for some inexplicable reason, I had an “aha” moment. In a spontaneous burst of comprehension, I felt it in deep down in my own soul. I have been here before. Perhaps being in myContinue reading “Contemplating Reincarnation”