CUSSING — OR NOT — MONDAY Do you think swearing is therapeutic? The question occurred to me when I was scrounging around for a Swahili...

When I was a kid, I loved reading Scott O’Dell’s 1960 Newbery Medal Award-winning novel Island of the Blue Dophins. Forever after, the...

When on the island of Kauai in Hawaii recently, we met surf guru Bill Hamilton. He grew up in the 1950s in southern LA, where some of the...

I knew my author photo was getting old, but loathed the idea of getting a new one. Though I’m somewhat photogenic for informal cell phone...

When my husband and I lived in Madison, WI, where he went to grad school, we started reading The Onion, a hilarious, free satirical...

All right, so the “must read” in this list featured on Bookglow — “all about books, all of the time” — is probably an exaggeration. But...

My friend recommended the movie, Soul Surfer based on the Kauai surfer girl who got her arm bitten off by a shark near the same area...

When researching for this trip to Kauai, I remembered from my previous trip that the island has a lot of non-native wild boar and...

What kind of traveler are you? My typical ratio is 20% planned activities that require reservations. The rest of the time is...

Before the pandemic, we used to go to Hawaii regularly. I'm happy to say I'm vaccinated, boostered, masked, and as such, leaving for...

I never tire of memoirs. I love learning about people and experiences that are vastly different than my own. That and there are so many...

Nature magazine has just published The best science images of 2021. Fantastic doesn’t begin to describe these photos! They’re...

There are so many books on the market, it’s hard to know what to read. That’s why I tend to look for lists that are curated. Judges take...

Have you seen the Netflix documentary 14 Peaks yet? I recommend you do! The story is simple enough. Over time, lot of tough Western...

As a writer, I do so much research on such a wide variety of topics that I wonder if I’m on any national security organization’s watch...

5TH BOOK TO BE PUBLISHED! THURSDAY I’m stoked to announce my fifth book, a historical novel titled The Falcon, the Wolf and the...

While doing research, I happened upon a really wild event that occurred during my youth, but that I never heard of, the Chowchilla...

Bliss Road on It’s Way! Just a quick note today to say that Vine Leaves Press has decided to add to my stack of published books by...

Yesterday I sent out a newsletter offering a Kindle copy of these two fantastic new memoirs. Recommend your favorite memoir(s) below and...

Register now! VIA LAS VEGAS! Las Vegas Writers Conference (virtual) April 8 – 10 Register now! Four years ago I had the pleasure of...