I was wandering through Seaside, Oregon on an unusually hot and muggy day. Now, on the coast hot and muggy go hand in hand, but we have the good fortune in the Pacific Northwest to not have …

Quieting the Voices in my Mind: my quest to get published part 1.
Day one: So this isn’t really day one. Not truly. I have always dreamed of being an author and breathing life into the characters that populate my inner landscape, but I have always been afraid. Up until …
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Another round of bizarre things I discovered during late night book research!
1. Farting lowers blood pressure!\ Thank god! At the police department, there was a can of aerosol that someone had taped on a label that read “Stonesol.” Hey, it wasn’t all my fault, there was a family …
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Late nights with whiskey and The Bell Jar
The next thing I knew, it was 4 a.m., and I was turning the last page of The Bell Jar while sipping my third tumbler of whiskey.

My Toddler Brain
It's like trying to fit the Hulk into a Geo Metro, no matter how you try, it just isn't going to happen.