November 1, so my Amazon sales page is back to zero for monthly sales and page reads. I really wanted to publish another Christmas book...

I did my first race since Cecil died yesterday. Road racing was a thing that we did together. I can count on one hand the races I went...

I love to cook and bake. I love to follow recipes, but also to create dishes out of ingredients I have on hand. In the years of Cecil's...

One of the hardest things for me to cope with on this grief journey is the fear. I see scary monsters everywhere. When Lenny came to...

The loveseat saga is over, and yesterday, it finally arrived. Melanie helped me to decorate around it, and except for a few pictures...

This is my view this morning from my hotel window on the twenty-fourth floor. We are under a dense fog advisory. I was lucky enough to...

It has been a rough couple of months for me. This grieving thing is so very hard. Yesterday I was scheduled to walk 11 miles in...

I realize at first glance this picture has nothing to do with this blog post - but stay with me - I hope it will make sense eventually....

This is me, pushing my mom, Harriet, in a borrowed wheel chair at a resort in Cancun. I think you can see the smile on my face. We were...

This is a picture of the space where my Classic Overnighter from This End Up Furniture Company is supposed to be right now. I guess you...

Today is my daughter's birthday. When you have a baby at sixteen, there is just so much you don't know. For example, I didn't know how...

I started writing again yesterday, and I realized that I needed to do some data gathering and analysis before I went where I thought I...

I had such ambition when starting this blog. The plan was to write posts every couple of days, and for a while that worked. And then,...

My poor pool is trying to come back from another upset. It is still pretty green, but much less green than it was yesterday. It all...

Words are really important to writers. We think about them constantly. We try to pick just the right words to put in the blurb on the...

My stepson has been getting Cecil's 1960 Chevy Impala ready for me to sell. Like all antique automobiles, working on it is a challenge,...

My half marathon training plan called for 8 miles this week, and I did it! I don't know why my watch thinks I was running some of the...

This is Deuce, looking out the window of our hotel room in Biloxi, that I paid $600 for to find a pet friendly room after Hurricane Ida. ...

I have been told many times that the grief comes in waves and that you can never know when to expect to be overwhelmed again. And I have...

I have a love/hate relationship with my treadmill. I REALLY do not enjoy walking on the treadmill. All of the wonderful uplifting...