Setbacks, rejections, and unsuccessful attempts are typical for most of us. From being fired from my first professional job out of...

Word-of-mouth is how Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng became my favorite novel in March. It’s not a genre I normally gravitate towards,...

While I’m well past living in Young-Land, or even Middle-Land, what I know about age is this: There's no Goldilocks version of a “just...

Where do you start a series? When I discovered Jane K. Cleland’s Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series a couple years ago, there were...

It took me a few decades to understand that who I am and my worth as a human being has nothing to do with my title or paycheck or job. It...

The challenges of December – decorating, writing holiday greetings, shopping for presents and the like – shifted my reading pattern....

In the big scheme of things, all I want for Christmas, is to believe it’s possible to change the trajectory of this world we share;...

I grew up loving Mary Higgins Clark's books, so when I noticed that Tracy Gardner’s Red Herring: An Avery Ayers Antique Mystery (June...

I was wrong. Fiction is harder than non-fiction. At least for me. But it’s also way more fun. I used to believe writing non-fiction was...

I think milestones should be celebrated, especially challenging ones. Creating a new website was that for me since I’m not what you might...