Category: The Writing Life

Thoughts most writers can identify with.

An Introduction to BlueSky

BlueSky began as a Twitter (X) alternative, but it has become much more. A relatively new online forum, it is being continually updated as the users’ needs evolve.

Christmas Cozies Make Great Holiday Reading

Would you like to add some fun holiday-themed mysteries to your reading pleasure? Do you have mystery lovers on your gift list? These wonderful titles, written by my fellow Sisters In Crime members, will fill your stockings with delightful, and sometimes diabolical, entertainment.

Reading, Writing, and … please, not Arithmetic

Reading, Writing, and … please, not Arithmetic. I’m just not a numbers person. Thankfully, this post has nothing to do with that. In fact, it has nothing to do with pretty much anything, other than letting the world (as if anyone actually reads this blog) know I’m still breathing.

I Stumbled Across an Old Friend

Have you ever come across an old story you’d completely forgotten existed? I did, just the other day, and it gave me a nostalgic smile.

Nostalgia

When we are old, life seems to go from Christmas to Christmas. The years in between holiday seasons rush by faster and faster, a blur of color and sound. We look forward to what remains, and behind to what has been. What is behind stretches out in vivid detail, with Christmases standing out like the bright lights on the tree of life. What lies ahead feels frighteningly brief, as we know how fast those Christmases will follow one up on another until we, too, become stars in the sky.