I’ve spent the last week staring into space a lot…hitting the pool nearly every day…cooking and baking like I haven’t enjoyed for weeks…actually READING A BOOK that is not my own! Playing music with lyrics–loudly! For all practical purposes, I haven’t written a word, except emails, for a week now.
I have NOT stopped writing! Matter [...]

“Whose woods these are, I think I know…
He will not mind me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.”
How long since any of us watched the woods fill up with snow? I’m in Deep Deadline mode this week, but our snow last night had me gazing out the back window and playing with [...]

I don’t list New Year’s resolutions anymore—they’re   invitations to live better for a few days before utterly blowing them, or blowing them off—but I do focus on fresh goals. I have two this year:
Create beauty—and share it.
Think sexier, live sexier.
Have you noticed that the second one gets a little harder as time goes [...]

Spice and Secrets!
Once again this year I’ve crammed my deep freeze with nearly 120 dozen yummy Christmas cookies! I send them to my agent and editors for gifts, I donate them to my church by the boxful, and I deliver cookie buckets to my sibs and family, and trays to my friends around town (including [...]