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Can you feel it? The universe correcting itself? Who knew it would happen in July and bring so much joy and hope in the process? Things just keep getting better, with a monumental accomplishment of diplomacy by the Biden/Harris administration, as well as a victory for humanity, when many unjustly, horrifically, imprisoned in Russia have […]

It was a profound and exhilarating experience to be one of 180,000 women on a call (who broke Zoom twice) raising $2 million in two hours for Vice President Kamala Harris to become the next president of the United States, and the first woman to be president. A woman of color. In case you didn’t

Like so many, I experienced a roller-coaster fluctuation of emotions on Sunday. I was on the phone with my almost 91-year-old life-long Democrat mother when the news broke.  I was shocked, crushed, devastated, sickened, and furious. Livid, because I did not trust those, including lackwits blowing hot air for the media as well as diabolical

I feel like I’ve been traveling back it time this past week, binge-watching the 1980s TV show Moonlighting, while I wait for my latest Other Worldly novel, Aliens Watch, to come back from my editor. In some remembered ways, it stood the test of time. In others, it disappointingly did not. What a bombastic eye-opener

In my Other Worldly novels, age discrimination is eschewed and most aliens of the extraterrestrial kind are not ageist or sexist, especially with respect to post-middle-aged female protagonist Rowan Layne. It’s a world I would much prefer to live in, being an over-sixty woman, as opposed to this nation’s rampant and ridiculous, highly selective, politically

It’s that time of year, for summer vacays and road trips. I myself am not going anywhere—in this horrendous heat? But plenty of folks hook up their campers and fire up their RVs to hit the road, especially here in the West. I remember East Coast summer road trips always including awful traffic, sometimes due

I stayed up too late finishing John Grisham’s latest novel, Camino Ghosts, third in a fascinating series that I hope won’t be the last of these crime thrillers that are also pleasing “beach reads,” though I’m not at the beach. I am, nonetheless, in sweltering temperatures, far too humid for the summertime desert clime. Hence,

Celebrating the summer solstice today, which frequents in my Other Worldly series, especially structures that align with the angle of the sun on solstices and equinoxes. England’s Stonehenge during summer solstice is featured in Being Alien, and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico is the focus of Alien Sensation, although that scene takes place on the

I have a rubber stamp for paper crafting that says, “Whenever I check my weight, I always subtract 5 pounds. I don’t think boobs and brains this fabulous should count against me.” Recently I read an online Writer’s Digest article, “The Importance of Plus-Size Inclusion in Romance Novels,” by author Mae Bennett, which brought this

I turned on the news this morning to something unexpected—and delightful. The launch of Boeing’s Starliner, heading for the International Space Station. And I got tears in my eyes seeing it leave Earth, the blues and greens of our planet photographed from a distance, as my protagonist Rowan Layne surely did the first time she