I attempted to explain Twitter to my dear husband. His eyes glazed over, and I gave up, but the topic brought on memories of my initial entry into the world of cyber social communications. There is, in the way the mind holds on to small things, a moment I still recall from back in the [...]

I am writing this from the top of my new exercise ball.  Some friend or other recommended replacing your desk chair with one of these giant yoga balls as a way to burn a few extra calories (as your body makes many tiny adjustments), work on balance, and maintain good posture.  It even came with [...]

I have written more than 80,000 words of my current manuscript-in-progress, and I still don’t have a title for it. In my last blog post, I wrote, “You know you’re a novelist when the working title of your current project is The Book From Hell.”  Obviously, I was speaking from personal experience.  My current project [...]

Writing is like breathing, it’s what I do. Fiction, nonfiction, blogs, Facebook, MySpace, emails — not so many handwritten letters any longer, alas, and no longer any diaries.