Blog Posts
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2020 Review: The Year I Grew A Foot Taller
I’m a respectable 5′ 4″. There are many of us that walk around in this cute, little package, people like Catherine O’Hara, Billie Eilish, Rashida Jones, and even Michael J. Fox all hang…
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Sweater Envy – A Seasonal Short Story
A few years ago I took a short story class. I hadn’t written short stories in a while, I find my voice to be too descriptive to sum up everything in shorter fiction.…
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Four Reflections of Gratitude in 2020
I usually never participate in thankful posts. Reason, well, I’m thankful every day. I say “Thank you” on a daily basis, and honest, I mean it. I’m grateful when someone holds the elevator…
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Book Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab
….this book. Have you ever had a book you can’t recover from? That in its genesis there are slivers that dig deep under you and prickle every now and again with memory? That…
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Book Review: Strange the Dreamer Duology
My copy of Strange the Dreamer I snuck in with me in the ER after an allergic reaction to a wasp sting
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The Inspiration For My Book “To Dream In Daylight”
The threads of stories often come in the weirdest places in our lives. For me, I've often been inspired by dreams.
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Ennui: When the Adreneline is Gone
The first heard the word “ennui” in the movie, A Simple Twist of Fate, one of Steve Martin’s more serious roles. However, I loved this movie and watched it often when I was…
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Writing BIPOC Characters: A Conversation with JT Moore
Writing BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color), diverse characters can be challenging. I love personality and infusing personality traits into my characters. Bringing in a diverse background is critical to building layers to…
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Book Review: The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
3.75 stars I have a few things to bring up about the author’s theology in writing this book. “I don’t care about your ignorance.” The author clearly knows her stuff when it comes…
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Emotional Quarantine: A Different Perspective of Quarantined Life for a Creative
I realized the other day that I am having a different quarantine experience than other people. I was invited to have a Zoom Lunch Meeting with my writer friends. They started doing this…
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Things to Love in the Time of Corona
Today is March 19th, 2020. It’s the first day of spring. Do people remember what Spring is? It’s the wakening of a sleepy world, one that has no memory of anything that has…
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Book Review: The Starless Sea and Dreamy Meandering
“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have…
