How the Japanese Tea Ceremony Mirrors the Author/Reader Relationship
On our recent trip to Asia I barely scratched the surface of omotenashi, the Japanese spirit of hospitality, but I…
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Women Writers over a Certain Age
The following article was originally published on BooksByWomen.org. A friend suggested recently I write an essay about how one went about…
Book Club: It’s Okay if You Don’t Discuss the Book
The following article was originally published on NovelNetwork.com. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard the disparaging…
How Instagram Helps My Writing
I took a “Writing from Personal Experience” class in Cambridge taught by Mopsy Strange Kennedy. An exercise she often assigned…
On Golfing and Writing
If I look back at the woman I was twenty years ago… I never thought I’d love golf. I also…
Back on Campus – School Stories
You've probably seen all the photos on Facebook and Instagram – it's graduation season and I can't believe how my…
The Nine
Very excited that my second novel, The Nine, will be released by She Writes Press in the Spring of 2019.…
How Much of This Is Autobiographical?
This is the question I receive most often when visiting with book clubs and readers. Haven’t you noticed how books…
Gratitude and Reflections for a New Year
Before I look forward to 2018’s resolutions, I need to say thank you to 2017. There hasn’t been a year…
Thinking about Adam, Eve, and the Garden
As I’ve traveled from place to place over the past seven months talking about EDEN, it has been revelatory that…