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writer of fantasy and other strangeness
People often asked where I get the inspiration for my stories. For those of you who know me personally, you might know that my inspiration comes from the photographs I take. Party of my creative process is making time to explore with my camera, looking for broken down, colorful and sometimes strange settings or objects...
I don’t know about you, but for me, January seems like it should be part of the year before. It feels like a buffer month, one where you pull the blankets up, make a cocoon and stare into the fire, daydreaming about all the things you should be doing. It’s a time to catch your...
This will be our tenth fall in Phoenix, at least I think it is. Funny how you lose track after a while, especially when the seasons don’t show up. Fall and winter in particular. So I came up with a theory that may or may not have been heavily influenced by a fairytale writing workshop I...
I’ve been thinking a lot about age lately. Could be that the infamous five-oh has been staring me in the face since February. That’s when Time showed up. My birthday wasn’t until August but she would flare her red skirt in the shadows of my home, catching my attention. Then she’d leave. She (yes, Time is...
As a writer, you’d think I’d have a lot to say. That so many months wouldn’t have gone by between newsletters. I do have plenty to say, but all of it is made up. I find real life stuff hard to write about or even boring––at least when it comes to my own life....
Fall is here! It’s hard to tell when you live in Arizona, well, the Valley anyways. There are no trees changing color and we’re still waiting for the temps to get out of the high nineties. After ten years of living here it still seems strange that we haven’t had a snow storm. In Canada the...
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