In my book, Bringing Delaney Home, an Army nurse and runner is wounded in Afghanistan. When her rehabilitation stalls eight months after the explosion, it takes the love of her sister, a stubborn cop, and a whole town to help her find the strength she needs to try again. The […]
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I Won the Mom Lottery
Something I Noticed that Might Have Passed Me By (2009) It will be six years this summer since my mom died. The first three years sucked. The pain of losing her was intense and sharp and jagged. Like someone had twisted barbed wire all around my body and then told […]
Continue readingNewton’s 1st Law of Motion & My Ass
On Goals: It’s time to get serious about all of my goals, not just my writing ones. I got out of the habit of daily exercise when I went back as a full time student to get my degree from 2008-2010. Bad, bad idea to put exercise on the back burner. […]
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Bella 2/1/2004-7/7/2014 We said goodbye to the best puppy in the world yesterday evening. We loved her so.
Continue readingMy Mom’s Wisteria.
On Life: If you’ve read through some of my older posts, you know about my mom’s passing a few years ago and her wisteria plant. My sister was able to dig some up before my dad sold the house in MD. We planted it at our old house in NC […]
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On Writing: Like many writers, music is a source of inspiration for me. For Bringing Delaney Home, it was Stevie Wonder music. My new Texas series sprouted from listening to an old song by Julio Iglesias, “To All the Girl’s I’ve Loved Before.” I heard that song and thought, what […]
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