Luna Moth Woman

This St Patrick’s Day marks one year for my author website and this blog. Henceforth, in honor of this Other Worldly and Luna Moth Woman anniversary, let’s talk time. There’s an interwoven Celtic/Gaelic-themed thread in my novels, and a recurring subject of time passage, including Earth’s lunar cycle. Also, the passage of time known as […]

Are there other authors out there who shamelessly projected their own hobby onto a protagonist? In my Other Worldly novels, Rowan Layne is a paper crafter of greeting cards made for family and friends, and also an avid rubber stamp collector, including snarky sayings and fantastical images. It turns out, mentioning some of those rubber […]

I’m still catching up on happenings during my residential move, so I’m delayed in honoring a Nevada icon lost late in 2021, Senate majority leader from 2007-2015 and a champion of environmental protection and energy conservation. For that alone, he is and should be lauded, but I have another reason for the focus of this […]

Three years ago on this day, I took this photograph, and in seemingly spiritual ways the experience forever changed my life. I unexpectedly encountered these marvelous creatures known as bighorn sheep in Nevada’s oldest state park, Valley of Fire, near the petroglyphs at Atlatl Rock, just as I prepared to leave. Valley of Fire is […]

Yes, it’s after Valentine’s Day so I’m late with this post. But I’m in the passionate throes of unpacking in a new house, and falling in love with quieter, gentler surroundings as I move from room to room and become easily distracted. Can I just say that leaving a box of breakables half-unpacked is not […]

I’ve seen a lot of Twitter posts lately from authors and writers who doubt their abilities and wish they weren’t consumed with angst over it. We all go there. It must surely be natural and inevitable to the creative process. But if we learn to lasso our doubts, to avoid their crippling effect, we may […]

I’m posting this on Groundhog Day because we’ve tackled this pathetic and tiresome issue before, yet it keeps coming back, seeming to never end. It repeats as mindlessly as the malevolent people perpetuating it. Fascist racists are in a tither to ban books revealing truths about atrocities their ancestors committed in the short history of […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces she’s running for re-election and Twitter erupts with immature, so-called progressive punks raging about her age, claiming she is too old for the job she’s been doing—and doing better than so many men before her, old or otherwise. Step aside, short-sided men, because your ageism is outrageous. Misogynist double-standard much? […]

This week’s post is brought to you a tad late due to last week’s crashed laptop. Perhaps the now worthless electronic device was reacting to energy emanating from me known as rage, much like my Other Worldly series protagonist with extraordinary electromagnetic energy. I wish mine could zap microphones the way Rowan Layne can. What […]

Every now and then I see a quote on Facebook that truly resonates. Most recently the message was: “When people are intimidated by your strength and happiness, they’ll try to tear you down, and break your spirit. Remember, it’s a reflection of their weakness, and not a reflection of you.” Those words were attributed to […]