Mother Love
Mother’s Day is supposed to be a day of celebration. A day of grand gestures and unconditional love expressed in all manner of ways. We’re inundated with images [...]
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May, 2023
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Apr, 2023
The Heartbreak of a Runaway
Recently I had the opportunity to help return a runaway dog to its heartbroken owner. Perhaps I overstate my role here, let me tell you the story. To [...]
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Mar, 2023
The Personal Touch….
My first novel, A Better Next, was published in May 2019, my second novel, Finding Grace, in July of 2022 and my third, Behind the Lies, is in the queue [...]
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Feb, 2023
Gestures of Love
February is the perfect month to make a gesture of love. Get showy even! Flowers, Valentine cards, chocolate, and in my case home-made sugar cookies baked from my [...]
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Jan, 2023
Her Choice
Early in this new year, I’ve been lucky to have a few library events to talk about Finding Grace. Added to the many interviews and events I’ve had [...]
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Dec, 2022
The Thing About Small Towns
“The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.” - Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German Philosopher. I [...]
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Nov, 2022
Loathsome Mothers
By now, many have read Finding Grace, and have deep feelings about Caroline and her style of mothering. One of my early reviewers used the term “loathsome” to [...]
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Oct, 2022
The Small Town Doc
One of my early readers for “Finding Grace” asked me about the inspiration for the fictitious character Dr. Walt Riley, the family doc in Two Harbors, Minnesota, who, [...]
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Sep, 2022
Desperate Teens
Now that Finding Grace is out in the world and I am on the book circuit, I get questions that pull me back to the inspiration behind the [...]
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Aug, 2022
Betwixt
’Tis the season of betwixt and between. Dog days of summer with school around a distant corner yet. The Minnesota State Fair starts ten days before Labor Day, [...]