Live With Flair

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to stop trying to impress people all the time? Wouldn’t the holidays be so easy if the motivation behind our behavior

Sometimes, characters in novels take on lives of their own. They do things that deviate from the originally storyline. It might be a small detail

We’re driving on the highway behind a huge concrete truck. The revolving drum on top the truck mixes the concrete even while on the road.

Today I realize all the ways one might influence an environment. In writing, an author influences the mood of a piece by using primarily sensory

My shy daughter finally befriends a little girl she’s crossed paths with for years but never had the courage to approach. She finally invites the

My amazing agent and I are working together to prepare a manuscript to submit to publishers. (It’s a contemporary adult novel that you’ll hear more

Today, I read my students a single event memoir by Deidra Riggs. I’m asking them to choose a single event–a single moment of their lives–to

This morning, my oldest daughter cries out to her sister, “I’ll race you!” “OK!” the youngest one says, and they’re off! Suddenly, she stops and

An incredible artist, Ted Cantrell, sends my family a piece of his original artwork for our home. From the moment I remove this piece from

Two days ago, I purchase mini almond biscotti for no reason at all. You can’t just eat biscotti, you have to dip it in tea