We’re in the middle of a winter storm. 5-8 inches predicted if you believe one source, 3-6 if you go with another. Anyway, slick roads, the muffling of sounds that comes with a heavy blanket of snow, temperatures way down near zero. We lost one of our ducks to...
It is cold in this part of the world. We don’t have a lot of snow yet in Pittsburgh, but temperatures have been below freezing since November left and December began. We are a household with many beloved pets, and sadly the cat that has been with our family the...
We spent Thanksgiving week in Cook Forest State Park. I took my laptop but did exactly no writing while I was there. I did a lot of knitting though, which was relaxing. We had the first real snowfall of the season while we were there as well. The woods beside the...
In October a friend of mine invited me to join her on a short trip up to her family cottage near Lake Erie. It was a wonderful reset and refresh for me to get back into heavy-duty editing and rewriting after a significant amount of time spent on other projects. It has...
The novel I am working on, Shelf Life, includes a situation where a family farm is being seized in an eminent domain purchase by the state, to facilitate construction of a highway. Researching eminent domain sales is fascinating, more so because I am not at the mercy...
