Last year, embarrassingly for the first time, my husband and I celebrated, shared Kwanzaa as a family. It has that duality. Celebrating Kwanzaa is sharing Kwanzaa with people you love. I don’t think it was ever meant to be shared alone. It starts in fact, with the first of...
For most of my adult life, I have watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" every December. Strangely enough, I do not know the words to any of the songs. You would think, after allllllllllllllll these years, I would know more than "You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch...." Yup, that’s...
The first story in my book is about abortion, which is a very personal subject for me, even though it is not my story. For nearly 50 years, abortion was legal in America. I remember when Roe v. Wade became law. Not because I understood about laws, but because my...
I had a booksigning last week. No one came. But that’s not the focus of this blog. My husband doesn’t have good eyesight and has not read the book. So I have been reading the stories to him. We were sitting there, alone at the booksigning, and I decided...
I am so happy to be here! My muse and I have written short stories that have been floating around in my mind for nearly twenty years!