Laughter Best Medicine

Normally, medicine is the last thing I want to be prescribed. However, laughter really is the best medicine, and that’s a prescription I never balk at. But in a twist, I never saw coming, I may be the one doing the prescribing! This weekend I was thrilled to get anContinue Reading

Holding a tea leaf

What am I doing with my life? At nearly 53, I never imagined I’d still be questioning my direction, but here I am. Lamenting things left undone, goals unpursued, and my inability to block out distractions and focus. So what better post to talk about turning over (another) new leafContinue Reading

Devil with claw hands reaching out from an open window

One of the great thrills of my writing life has been getting to know Emerian Rich, the horror hostess with the mostest in charge of HorrorAddicts.net. She answered a call for a fiction anthology I put together for Haunt Jaunts some years back, Shadow People and Cursed Objects: 13 Tales ofContinue Reading

Charles Dickens' Haunted Mirror YouTube Cover

In February I received word that my story, “How to Conjure the Spirit of Charles Dickens in the Haunted Mirror at the Omni Parker House” had been accepted for The Feminine Macabre, a new all-women, nonfiction anthology that Amanda Woomer from Spook Eats was developing. Well, The Feminine Macabre: AContinue Reading

Feminine Macabre cover

Earlier this year Amanda from Spook Eats included me among those she tagged on socials about her new paranormal journal, which will be called The Feminine Macabre. She was looking for paranormal women who might be interested in submitting something. It piqued my interest, but would I have a chanceContinue Reading