The first two chapters from my novel To Have Loved & Lost, for your reading pleasure. 1 She stands just inside the short hallway that leads from the locker rooms to the shining wood of the court’s floor, waiting for her name. She’s the last of the starting line-up to Read more…
I’m so close to finishing Reverie, y’all. And I also woke up to the good news that Roy Moore lost in the special election in Alabama! (* non-Americans: see explanation below) What-what! When the national news had been reporting that “anything can happen in this election,” I thought to myself, Read more…
Yo. Today is 12/6/17, so I thought I would give you an excerpt from my new book Reverie, which now has an official release date: January 22, 2018. Yippee! It’s not the Thanksgiving release I was hoping for, but I’ll take it. Without further adieu, the excerpt: “So anyway, I Read more…
One of the reasons we get anxious and overwhelmed is because we feel like so much hinges on any given decision. Guess what? It doesn’t. The truth of the matter is, we are each very tiny beings on a very tiny rock floating in space. Although our decisions might be Read more…
The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung is credited with saying, “Whether or not God exists is questionable. Whether or not man needs God is certain.” [ paraphrase ] In other words, whether or not there’s a greater structure, meaning, and mystical presence to the universe is a question we mere mortals Read more…
It’s not yet eight o’clock in the morning as I write this, and so far, my day has gotten off to a completely ordinary start. I woke up a little after six, read for a few minutes, stumbled into the kitchen to start my coffee, did some basic exercises while Read more…
Do you know the site Genius.com? It takes song lyrics and explains where they came from. You search a song you’re interested in, like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and you can click on each lyric to see Genius’s commentary. Sometimes the commentary is a generic discussion of where else you might hear Read more…
Hey, all. My narrator, Angela Rysk, is working hard on the audio version of Anika takes the long way home up soul mountain. Take a listen to the first chapter below!
I have this habit… I guess it’s a bad habit?… of starting new projects when I get stuck or bored with the one I’m working on. So I haven’t been working much on Reverie, although to throw you a bone, here’s a recent little excerpt: “Me?” the girl says. There’s Read more…
Greetings from the Denver airport, where I’ve been sitting at the terminal on my laptop, working on some odds & ends as I await my flight to sunny San Diego. What I’ve been working on that you might be interested in: Setting up the details for a massive group lesfic Read more…