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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Mar, 2023
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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, [...]
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Jun, 2022
Father’s Day
Father’s Day is just around the corner, and for many of us the holiday brings memories of fathers long passed. My own Dad, a WWII veteran who went [...]
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May, 2022
Period of Adjustment
Life is full of surprises these days, and change can be exhilarating as well as challenging. But it is constant. Spring finally arrived in Minnesota and lasted just [...]