For Breakfast Today…

For my first post of 2025, I'm going to share something that I've been ruminating on for a bit. That is, what does it take for me to feel truly content? Have I ever been content? Am I content now? To begin with thinking about this moment in my life, I would have to...

All caught up with the dates—date stamps from here on out reflect the actual post date! Howdy. Welcome to my blog page. This entry marks the beginning of new posts, with my most current events. The other sixteen posts I have transferred here from blogspot for...

Monday, July 29, 2019 Ciao! Well, it's been about a year to the day since I last posted. I have done a lot of traveling and received some major good news. I was named a 2019 McKnight Foundation Fellowship in Writing recipient. I'm still overwhelmed that I was one of...

Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Thanks for stopping by. I'm all graduated now—my MFA means I have the ability to teach at the college level. But more importantly, it means I've grown a nice little writing community around myself. The year started off great, with an acceptance...

Thursday, September 28, 2017 Hi all- For those of you who have been keeping up with my posts, you are probably thinking shouldn't she be finished with that MFA by now? Well, I am in the home stretch. I have one more round of homework to go, and create a video for my...

Tuesday, February 7, 2017 Hi- Thanks for stopping by! For those of you keeping track, I am now in the second half of my graduate program. I've had a second short story accepted for publication, and I'm heading for the writer's conference that I attended last April in...

Monday, April 4, 2016 Good Day LA! Wrapping up a wonderful, whirlwind trip to LA that I mentioned in my last post. Had the chance to attend an awesome writing conference, and while there learned that my first published piece of short fiction was hitting the stands....

Thursday, February 18, 2016 Bonjour (encore)! I love Todd Rundgren, and I'm hoping that his song "A Dream Goes On Forever" will come true. If you read my last post, you'll know that I'm in an MFA writing program (Spalding), and as I reach midsession I have great news:...

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 Bonjour- Well, I have started my MFA program, and I must say that it was nothing short of a life-changing event. I got choked up for days when I talked about it after returning home. I've never felt so energized, and purposeful as I did in...

Friday, August 21, 2015 Well, if you've read my blog, you know that I was LA bound. That did not come to fruition, and I'm now in a secret location in the Midwest. The big news is that I've been accepted to grad school, and may be a fifty-year-old freshman in...

Tuesday, April 15, 2014 I want everyone to pray that I get an Amtrak Writing Residency. Please pray hard. And pray that my copyediting takes off and I make at least 2.5k this year proofing and editing. Grazie.  

Tuesday, April 15, 2014 Well, the Super Secret project has run its course. I'll have to find another way to make it back to LA. It was a gracious rejection, accompanied by a nice piece of artwork, which I will be framing. The real dream (the one I can attain): •  Move...

Sunday, July 21, 2013 Well, the Super Secret project is at a place now where I'm almost ready to share it with one other person in the world (my best friend from college). I've told them about it, so it's not so Super a Secret anymore. I've tried to curb my...

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 I've been talking about LA for a reason. I'm jumping into the fray.  I have a Super Secret project that I'm working on, and I'm jumping into the rabbit hole and trying to be one of thousands trying to do the same thing. Suffice it to say, if you...

Sunday, April 28, 2013 True. I'm going to talk about LA, on the eve of leaving the City of Angels after ten days. My ambivalence about the city has been well documented here. The thought of leaving San Francisco has become more palatable. Why? Well, I'm having a hard...

Thursday, March 21, 2013 You may have read my post where I railed on +Los Angeles, more or less calling it evil. Well, in that same post, I said "fool me once..." Well, shame on me, because I'm considering moving back. I'm cold. San Francisco is cold. I wear sweaters...

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Did I say January 14th? I meant March 18th. But let's not split hairs. Recent (extensive) travel to Los Angeles has caused me to really decipher what it is that I like about San Francisco. It came down to the one thing that all of my friends in...

Wednesday, January 9, 2008 This is just the beginning, kitty-cats. All of the musing that usually doesn't escape my fuzzy little head will land here. Tune in January 14th for the Inaugural Ball. Love and Happiness!