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Continue reading →: 8 rules for lending booksLending our books out is emotional. We love our books. Part of us worry about our precious books. We wonder if we’ll ever see them again (the books, not our friends). The other part of us is busy trying to give the worrying part of us moral support for the…
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Continue reading →: writing prompt friday: DoppelgängerHello and welcome back to Writing Prompt Friday! This week’s prompt is inspired by a traffic jam that left me sitting in my vehicle with time to spend contemplating the mysteries of life. After deciding that I couldn’t solve the mysteries of life, I watched nearby birds play in the air currents…
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Continue reading →: in answer to “No one reads anymore”“No one reads anymore.” No writer likes hearing that. I’ll be blunt: that statement is offensive and devalues what we do for a living and who we are as humans. It’s also inaccurate. Recently I was in a meet-n-greet meeting with a new colleague. Guess what I heard this person…
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Continue reading →: writing prompt friday: cabbagesHello and welcome back to Writing Prompt Friday! Last week, I was cabbaged. At work. It was pure retaliation; after all, I started it. And I regret nothing. Hang on; let me clarify. To cabbage someone is to gift them with a cabbage against their will. Hide the cabbage in their…
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Continue reading →: writing prompt friday: love storyHello and welcome back to Writing Prompt Friday! It’s been a four-day work week, but it’s also been so busy it’s felt like a ten-day work week. These are the types of weeks that make the brain work fast and furious. So, of course, it wanders from time to time to…

