Funny how doing things wrong (or in this case, semi-wrong) can lead to a discovery. I bought some tomato plants this year, against my bette...

The brick & mortar business where I work has made me sign a document stating that if I talk about them online, I can be fired, so I won’...

When I was about 8, I got caught in a really big lie, one so ridiculous there’s no way anyone would possibly have believed it – except me. I...

At the risk of incurring the scorn of blogmasters and literary critics, the wrath of REALLY powerful talk-show hosts, the ire of authors of ...

Here’s another awkward question people ask me: "Why did you change pen names so often?" And once again, I get a lot of blank stare...

As a writer, one of the toughest questions I have to answer is, “Why didn’t you write a sequel to . . . ?” It’s not that I don’t have an ans...

When the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote his 3rd Symphony, the Pastoral , it was during World War I, and he was driving an amb...

My husband, Ernest Hogan, is a writer and an artist. I've had a lot of his work framed, and it crowds the wall of our home. This one may...

Every ghostly encounter is always at least 50% imagination. I’m happy with that equation – it makes me sound almost scientific, while leavin...

"He was leaping from rock to rock," claims witness. "We would have missed him if he hadn't been moving so slowly . . ....

This rock & fossil shop is on the main drag, right as you enter town from the North, and the bike rental shop is just a little further i...

I found a wonderful shop in Cave Creek, a little town North of Phoenix. It's called The Town Dump, and though it doesn't have a webs...

Just about everyone thinks summer is too hot where they live, and just about everyone is right. Some people are more right than others – esp...

Now that I’m 50, I remember what I knew when I was 5 :The Secret of happiness is Joie de Vivre, the ability to enjoy the simple things in li...