I cannot believe another year has passed by. With Thanksgiving behind, and Christmas barreling up, it’s hard not to compare this December to last year. It was right after I lost my father, and I had begun to down spiral. I had two huge books due that I needed to start writing, and I’d become […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about will power lately. The past few months have been difficult, and I lost my way for a bit. Or so I thought. I learned later that even the paths we choose that seem to meander aimlessly and stop short at a dead end is there for a reason. Maybe […]

  What are the only things we can count on? Death. Taxes. Change. I still hate all of them. I remember in my old day job, they were constantly updating computer systems, or policy, and every time I took a breath and got used to something, it was gone. Same thing with the book world. […]

New Year’s resolutions. Yeah, I know I’m a few days late on this topic, but at least I’m fashionable. Resolutions are everywhere, and for good reason. It’s a time to reflect and try again. I think New Year’s Day is a wonderful figurehead of the Queen of good intentions: fulfilling old dreams and creating new […]

Oh, my poor neglected blog. Let’s hope my regular readers haven’t given up on me, and understand that to deliver consistent quality reads in regular intervals, sometimes my blog suffers a bit. I took a vacation last week. An overdue one. I met up with my big Italian family and headed to Puerto Rico for […]