I’m in a writing slump. Morning pages and a blog post are all I’ve written in weeks. I’m so caught up in the second wave of trying to market Remember the Sweet Things that I can’t seem to settle down. Emails are all I manage to write, and even they deal mainly with book event possibilities up and [...]

Two people have expressed interest in working on a screenplay version of my book. I’ve been thinking about it and have hit on the idea of telling the story in my son’s voice (think Jean Shepherd’s “A Christmas Story”). He could begin as the eleven-year-old who witnesses his mom with the new man who enters her [...]

It felt good to be back in Denver last week. I “grew up” in Colorado, arriving at 24 with a husband and two babies, leaving at 36, a divorced single mother of two teens. During those 12 years, I learned to ski and to ride a horse, got myself hired and fired by Governor Dick [...]

I leave San Pancho early tomorrow morning, after a month attending to chores and guests. My to-do list grew as the days passed, and I vowed to never again let so much time elapse between stays.  Still, it’s been a lovely month of daily walks in the jungle, climbing back up my hill, legs coated [...]