When I started this series, I wanted to show cancer patients the upside of chemotherapy. It’s not the dreadful experience it used to be. Drugs help patients tolerate the toxins of their chemo “recipes” and minimize the side effects. 
I also hope I’ve shared the importance of laughing. Physiologically, a good belly laugh is healing. It’s important for patients [...]

I recently finished a book project that was so completely out of my comfort zone that I was hyper for months.
After all, I write contemporaries which I hope are funny. Suddenly I was asked to write a historical fantasy in a land far, far away. It was a treat to be asked, as the editor [...]

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The other night, I watched a Carole King and James Taylor concert on WEAR—PBS.  Carole sang a signature song and the lyrics snagged me.  In the song, a woman says she can’t hide and just can’t fake it anymore and she called the question:  [...]

Today,  April 22, is Earth Day. I’m a conservationist at heart (and I blogged earlier about Granny Green, how our grandmothers were the ultimate recyclers), so I do nothing special to celebrate this day. I take my own bags to the grocery (I have oodles of tote bags from writers’ conferences and RV events) and [...]

When we moved from upstate NY to Florida, we had to learn not only about plants we’d never seen before, but also how to grow the ones we were familiar with. To do so, we took a couple of horticultural courses included in the Adult Education curriculum at the local high school and given [...]

Last week I visited a local museum exhibit entitled, “Cut! Costume and the Cinema.” Along with two of the Diva’s, Kathy and Kimberly, we were enthralled from the moment we stepped through the doors.
The exhibit featured 43 period costumes, spanning five centuries representing movies like Pirates of the Caribbean; The Curse of the Black [...]

Every now and then we need to stop and take stock.  Ask ourselves the hard questions about our lives, how we’re spending them, and to actually focus on those questions long enough to answer them.  Honestly.
It’s easy to get caught up in everyday life, and to not focus on the things really important to us. [...]

Anyone but me excited about the upcoming 2010 NASCAR season?!
Sunday marks the season opener, the Daytona 500. Or, to racing fans, the High Holy Day of Racing. Most sports have their big day at the end of the season, but NASCAR does it big for the opener. Besides the race, there’s all kinds of great [...]

I have a novella out right now with a bunch of heavy hitter writers. So of course I should be talking all about it in hopes that at least one or two readers will actually be interested enough to go out and buy it.
Forget it. I’m not even going to mention the name of the [...]

The start of this year has been COLD, to say the least. As I’m typing, my fingers are cold and I’m bundled up. You might think, so, what’s the big deal? It’s cold everywhere. The deal is that I live in FLORIDA and it’s not supposed to be this cold. In the last ten days, [...]