I get to the end of the week (Friday) and think, “Wow! That was a long week!" I realized at some point, every week is filled with new and...

I had an incredible week! On Tuesday, I visited the beautiful Sun Prairie Public Library to talk about my poems and the inspiration...

My poetry is often pastoral and takes the reader to places and emotions that I’ve felt in my life. I have not traveled a lot in the past...

The weather is getting nicer and this past weekend, I was able to open the sunroof and crank my car’s stereo. It felt so good to be...

It’s a full moon today! The Worm Moon. The Worm Moon gets its name from the earthworms that come out when the soil warms up. According to...

I love photographs and some of them really inspire me to write poems. I have a friend who takes the best pictures (one of them is...

Wow! We are already in March (my birthday is 3/28 just in case you were wondering)! I have written and talked about how important it is...

In the late 90s, I spent quite a bit of time in Pittsburgh. I would attend user group meetings as a software vendor. I traveled a lot...

As I’ve mentioned before, I love music. It just makes me feel better to listen to it, to sing to it, to play guitar to it and yes, to...

When I published my first book, The Liminal Space, I went to two bookstores nearby and I had radio and newspaper interviews. However, for...

I am a person who thinks that the universe gives us signs. I don’t always pick up on them, but I try! One thing that was interesting in...

Today, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Chali Pittman at WORT AM radio in Madison, Wisconsin. Click here to listen! See the...

It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? Another year in a pandemic. Naïvely, I didn’t think I’d see this in my lifetime. But I tend to be more...

CONTROL from The Liminal Space I hear them. Finding death and howling. She howls at him to grovel and he does. Control-freaks can really...

HEAL from The Liminal Space In the small town I look up at the crescent moon and the water tower with its painted carousel; middle earth...

My daughter told me about the term “Time Poverty.” Definition: time is a limited commodity for everyone. The rich, the poor, and almost...

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”- Brené Brown “Courage” is a big word, isn’t it? So is “vulnerability.”...

After I got married, just before I was pregnant I bought a mahogany guitar. I’ll play it on trail rides… Hold sing-a-longs… Belt out...

Work with the flow of thoughts; they are just passing through and are not meant to harm, but rather inform.

Sometimes I’ve been asked…Did you always know you wanted to be a writer? My mind immediately thinks 1,000 things and I manage to cobble...