Tuesday Teaser: Blood on a Texas Moon
In continuation of reviving my blog, today I’m going to go with a Tuesday Teaser. This is from my novella Blood on a Texas Moon, a vampire story I wrote as part of an anthology. It was something fun and different . . .and it was written right before my life imploded and I […]
Monday Musings: Memories September 2025
Can you believe that it is already September? I must be getting old because I keep thinking how has the year flown by so fast? I even found myself in somewhat of an existential crisis a couple of weeks back as it really hit me how my life […]
Monday Musings: Bouncing Back Once Again
Happy New Year! And… Let’s try this one more time! Who remembers that Chumbawamba song Tubthumping? “I get knocked down, but I get up again”? I’ve been told it’s a drinking song, but as a teetotaler, I embraced it for a different reason—it’s about bouncing back. And let me tell you, I’ve been knocked down […]
Work-In-Progress Wednesday: Forced To Trust (Vista Security Series)
This is a placeholder book cover for the next Vista Security Series book, Forced to Trust. I was making good progress on it in 2020, and then well, you know what all happened these last few years. It especially set me in a spin because a novel vaccine is part of this book. […]
Monday Musings: It’s still hot in Texas
Car Battery This will be short, I need to work on my fiction writing. But in case you wondered, yes, it’s still hotter than blazes in Texas. So hot that my car battery spontaneously died at work one day last week. My daughter came to the rescue and went to buy a new […]
Frugal Friday: Tough Times Ahead
With inflation on the rise and the prospects of a recession, or even worse, a depression on the horizon, I thought I would start this Frugal Friday blog and share tips on how I learned to be frugal over the years of raising and homeschooling six kids on a single income. Of course, my […]
Work-in-progress Wednesday: Trust No One interview
My current works-in-progress include a new vampire story, a sequel to Blood on a Texas Moon, and Forced to Trust, the next story in the Vista Security Series. However, given that I’m getting both stories organized (yes, I’m a planner) and even though I have several thousand words written on both, I’m not quite ready […]
Monday Musings: Write Your Way Home
Now that I’m writing again, I’m going to start trying to blog in a somewhat consistent manner. (How’s that for wishy-washy?) On Mondays, I plan to call my blogs Monday Musings and keep you up to date with what is going on. Ok, to be honest, not much is going on in my life […]
Curbside Courtesy
This is my fourth year working curbside at a large, busy grocery store chain. In the previous years, I have seen some extraordinary changes, not so much from the store’s curbside itself, although there have been changes and upgrades there, definitely. But more so, changes in the customers. So much so that it’s led […]
Living in the World of Make-Believe
I’m working on my website, found some links that don’t work so I’m fixing that today. (Yes, this has to do with the changes that’s happening that I mentioned in the previous blog post, trying to get super-duper organized for upcoming said changes.) This post first appeared on Mimi Barbour’s blog in February ’12 (and […]