Lauryne Wright

The highlight of a trying last week for many—with emphasis on light—was unprecedented far-side-of-the-moon shots from Artemis II, which launched on my birthday for a historic mission that broke space exploration records. The awe and joy this voyage brought, including the sheer humanity, brilliance, and decency of character displayed by its fabulously diverse crew, cannot […]

I’m writing this post because I turned 65 last week and am so far embracing it. And although it’s no longer Women’s History Month, given last month’s post about perseverance in publishing, I found it uncanny that I stumbled on another pertinent Writer’s Digest online article by yet another (oh happy day) female author, Amy

Yesterday evening, after loading up on ibuprofen for sore muscles even as my spirit soared to learn history had been made with more than eight million protesting across the nation, I saw this post on Bluesky: One thing you learn by going to No Kings protests is that there are waaaaay more old white ladies

Today I’m celebrating my ten-month anniversary of arriving in New Mexico; last week’s spring equinox; and the blooming of daffodils planted with much hope and anticipation in late October (depicted in the accompanying photo). As I’ve walked my dog in early morning springtime, cottontails have joined us while quail coveys skitter across rural roads and

This week marks the fifth anniversary of this, my Luna Moth Woman blog. To celebrate, and in keeping with March as Women’s History Month, I will honor a woman who embodied the feisty feminist spirit that is Luna Moth Woman, the late great Molly Ivins. First, some background on Luna Moth Woman. An alter ego

Recently I saw an unfamiliar reference to metapatterning, a verb meaning “breaking through patriarchal patterns and weaving our way out of male-ordered mazes.” As my fierce feminist protagonist Rowan Layne would say, boy howdy. It brought to mind myriad sociopolitical subjects featured in my Other Worldly novel series—and at least the mazes first introduced as

On January 27, I finally heard from One More Chapter—United Kingdom publisher seeking authors without agents—on my submission of a revised Alienable Rights, first novel in my Other Worldly series and originally self-published in February 2020. It was a hopeful longshot to attempt to “relaunch” the series at this juncture, so therefore not surprising that

On Thursday I was gifted with a headline that could be straight out of my Other Worldly novels: Trump tells Pentagon to release files on UFOs and “alien and extraterrestrial life” Granted, it came from CBS News, not exactly a reputable source these days, but given that this president has proved he’ll do and say

First and foremost, what we the people need is a laser that deflects DoD and DHS stupidity. And what I require is for incompetent imbeciles too idiotic to breathe to stop screwing with my regional airspace like it’s their personal pathological playground. Days ago I could not even begin to joke—or tolerate inane jokes about—this

Here I always thought the biggest government coverup to date, spawning endless and absurd conspiracy theories, involved aliens of the extraterrestrial kind. Not even close. And how many thought the worst defense and intelligence failure in our nation was 9/11? It wasn’t. Though the continued failure to acknowledge it as a colossal failure is a