THE WRITE WAY TO WELLNESS
“Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.” ~ Jan Karon Something happened to me after suffering a major ski injury this past season. My Orthopedic Surgeon said the healing process I’ve shown shocked him. He’s rarely seen a patient my age rebuild as quickly from…
Read MoreExcerpt from Book Three (yet to be released!)
Share This: Here’s an excerpt from book three, The Money Masquerade. This is from chapter twenty, at the climax of the plot: I glanced around the lavish subterranean mansion; At least twenty feet below ground. I was in a 9,000 square-foot bunker with thirty-seven rooms. Today I’d enjoyed a dip in the pool,…
Read MoreHappy Campers
“Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” ~ G. K. Chesterton What a fifteen-month period it’s been, a hard time for all. For me, between the Covid crisis, crutches, my kid spending his entire senior year of high school (plus the last four months of his junior year) behind a computer screen, and my mother diagnosed…
Read MoreGetting My Ski Mojo Back
“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” ~ Sir Edmund Hillary It was a bluebird day; sunny, clear, and cool. I was in my happy place, skiing an alpine mountain. We were on Headwall at Squaw Valley, and although there’s “no easy way down,” the four of us took what we consider…
Read MoreThe Premise and Plot of the “Masks” Series
For anyone who has read my novels, they see the basic premise is anti-war. Written in the voice of a mother, my debut, Masks of Morality, begs the question: What is the moral integrity of the USA’s wars in the middle east? My protagonist, Caryssa Flynn, had grown the corporate ladder in Silicon Valley…
Read MoreSilicon Valley and Star Wars
Don’t tell Silicon Valley, but Star Wars still thinks military technology is useless. George Lucas’ Star Wars was notoriously disenchanted, even critical, of technology’s ability to improve the world. That is, the technology used as a weapon. The Death Star in A New Hope stood in for our own Atom bomb. It was a product of the Empire’s…
Read MoreFAMILY CAMPING TRIP: SUMMER 2020
“Keep close to nature’s heart and break clear, once in a while, climb a mountain, or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”~ John Muir Every year, my immediate family, which consists of my husband, son, and myself, take wide-ranging trips together. We travel across the country, including to New England to…
Read MoreMindless Metaphors: Don’t Militarize Covid-19
With the constant research that goes into writing my “MASKS”-themed trilogy, I recently read an article in Scientific American titled, “Military Metaphors Distort the Reality of Covid-19.” It was written by Adina Wise, M.D., and neurology resident of Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in New York City. And although this was one of many profound…
Read MoreThe Silicon Valley Son
If the caption under this photo doesn’t cause every American concern today, it should. Especially given that the number one cause of the recent rise in homelessness in Silicon Valley and across the nation has been linked to the disparity of our huge spending on “defense” versus homelessness and other social causes to begin with.…
Read MoreThe Myth of the “Good War.” (WWII)
Writing my novels takes a lot of time, especially research. For every chapter written, likely over ten hours of research goes into the efforts, even more time than getting the words on paper. One thing I’ve grappled with is how our nation and others involved with WWII, forever use the narrative that WWII was “necessary”…
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