I haven’t done much free writing lately. You know, the kind where you sit down and just…write. Where there’s no editing. Whatever comes out of the pen is what is staying on the page. And I think, though without much free writing experience lately, it is easier to do longhand…
I returned home late last night from a great, much-needed few days away at the beach. I unplugged and basically…hung out. Each morning I was there, I woke up early and walked in the surf, listening to only the ocean surf and maybe the occasional seagull or two. Noise machines…
This past week marked the official first day of summer. Well…summer needs to catch up with the rest of the world. Here in DC we’ve already hit 100. Yes, you read that correctly. Thankfully we since cooled down some. But back to summer. I started thinking about summer ages ago…
Yesterday hardly felt like a Monday morning. It felt more like a Sunday morning and I should still have had plenty of time to drink my coffee, work on my novel and get the day going. But no, my alarm did not go off accidentally yesterday morning. I think part…
During my years in Texas, we had the most awesome thunderstorms. Seriously. The best. The thunder would be so loud and so powerful the walls shook, and there would be these brilliant, flashing patterns lighting up the sky for only seconds at a time. And sometimes the power would go…
The other weekend I attended another festival in DC, this time the Fiesta Asia. And of course, when I mentioned that I planned to check it out, friends wondered if Fiesta was a word in any Asian language (no, I don’t think it is). But it was fun, regardless of…