Navy Mess: Chicken Salad Sunday
There is a particular day in boot camp that stands out for me, and not in a good way: Chicken Salad Sunday.* I arrived at US Naval Training Center Orlando for Boot Camp in June of 1977. Florida was hot and muggy, very buggy, and a...
AZ State Library Writer in Residence 2023
Writer in Residence 2023 - A Grand Start I am a few weeks into my stint as a 2023 Arizona State Library Writer in Residence at the Chandler, AZ Library. Things are going great. I have taught a couple of writing workshops and consulted with about...
Whirlwind of Book Events
Book Events and Author Appearances are standard for me. This year has already been a whirlwind of book events. From the Kyrene Young Writers Conference, to Read Across America Day, Tucson Festival of Books, Renaissance Festival, Mesa Book Crawl, and the LA Times Festival of Books,...
Taking a Mini-Writing Retreat
Why a Mini-Writing Retreat? Sometimes you just need a break. The word retreat is defined by Merriam-Webster as the “act or process of withdrawing especially from what is difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable.” And one way Dictionary.com defines retreat as "the act of withdrawing, as into safety or...
My Top Ten Navy Boot Camp Lessons (Good, Bad & Ugly…Smelling)
My Top Ten Navy Boot Camp Lessons (Good, Bad & Ugly...
MY YEAR IN BOOKS – 2022
It's January, so a great time to take a look back at my year in books. I 💜 BOOKS! I love to read and have always been an eclectic and voracious reader. Being an author, editor and book coach is a great excuse to embrace what I...
US Navy Boot Camp-Day One: Welcome to RTC Orlando
Boot Camp Send-off? I really don’t recall the first leg of travel to Navy Boot Camp. A lot of things fade after 40+ years. I was twenty years old and already out of the house when I joined. I had also signed up a month or...