~ The Borrowed Book ~

Authors are a funny bunch. I’m not sure if you know that (if you are one, well, you know it. But if you’re mostly a reader, this might be ...

One of the things I’ve learned about myself is that I have a tendency to assume guilt, even when there’s no need to do so. Before my husba...

Since I was little and realized that there were real people who wrote the books I considered my very best friends, I had a mental image o...

Write what you know. That’s what you hear as advice when you’re still in that “aspiring writer” stage and haven’t fully moved into the “yea...

The Writing Life. It sounds so idyllic, doesn’t it? When I think of “the writing life,” I get an image of someone sitting by a pond with ...

I don’t get a lot of people asking me questions about what it’s like to be a writer. I suspect some of that is because I don’t tend to tel...