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  • Saying Good-Bye to Aspen

    Blogger’s note:  I know three weeks is a long time to be away from the blog, but it was for good reason as we cared for Aspen in her final days. We knew it was time. As Steve and I sat on th

  • Recent Reads: Shattered Glass

    Before I began writing, I always enjoyed reading. “Read what you like to write.”  That’s one of the mantras that got drilled into my head early in my writing career.  When I arrived at my w

  • When a Misplaced Letter Creates an Oops Moment

    As writers, we’ve all done it. We’ve looked at a manuscript so long that we miss things.  Simple stuff.  Stuff that if we’d taken the time, we might have found.  At work, we had a classic

  • How I Almost Ruined My Next Novel

    It started innocently enough. I’d completed a revised draft of my next novel and was ready to subject it to a good, solid content edit.  Being a writer of small means, I invested the time and en

  • Does Prayer Really Work?

    Blogger’s note:  I had fully intended to begin a new series related to my writing, but with the news of Saeed Abedini’s release, I decided to interrupt my schedule for this post. Satur