Salutations, November 8, 2022

I know. I'm not ready to enter the festive season either. But our Butterfly Junction booth will tell a different story this weekend!

Salutations September 2022

f you've read either of my novels and said, 'This was like that other book,' PLEASE tell me the title of that other book! I'll even up the ante and send you a free Kindle of my next novel Look Up as soon as it hits the shelves.

Grape Festival, Here We Come!

A sampling of wearable art head-turners we'll be taking to the Naples Arts Festival...

Salutations August – September 2022

It's cold. Rainy. Not summer. Alas. Such is my ode every fall. I kick! I scream! It's not that I hate autumn. It's just that I LOVE spring and summer! And I transition S L O W L Y. With E F F O R T. I hold on. To people, to goals, to stuff …

Salutations July 2022

Summertime and the livin' is sweet. And...hot.

Salutations June 2022

'I admire - and aspire to - crisp, precise prose where every word, phrase, sentence, and paragraph moves the story, and therefore you, the reader, forward.'

Salutations, June 2021

Summertime and the livin' is easy... I have seen a fish jump and I have seen some corn that was way higher than my knee a whole week earlier than the 4th of July. I've got green tomatoes on vines and peppers ready to eat. And lots of happy blooms to enjoy! And oh my, …

Salutations May 2021

I love May. It's the best dirty-fingernail time of the year when I get to plant my veggies and flowers amidst a curtain of green in every shade imaginable.

Goals for Play – My Recipe for Sanity

Here we are at home. Socially distant from friends, family, and our usual routines. What to do? How do we fight off cabin fever like we've never known cabin fever before? I'm convinced my answer lies in goal-setting. What would I do if I had a chunk of seclusion, a time-out from my usual? Hmm...maybe …