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  • Where to find my more recent articles

    I have moved my writing over to Substack. Thank you for reading! I would be delighted to see you support my work by subscribing to my Substack blog, Another View. Read more

  • My Novel is Out. Yay!

    After 28 years I completed and published my novel, From a Distance. Available on Amazon today! There’s a little story behind the cover. I decided to try Fiverr. Someone said you had to get an experienced person to do your cover so I found someone who had 4000+ reviews and some pretty good images. Well, Read more

  • Is true love and happiness just the carrot dangled in front of us?

    The possibility that we can find true love and happiness is the carrot dangled in front of us. It is the promise in every romantic comedy. We would be disappointed if it wasn’t. However, real life begs the question of whether we have placed our faith in fairytales. I know I have wondered this. In Read more

  • When You Face Resistance as a Writer

    Does anyone else ever feel like all hell breaks loose once you set a goal? Recently I determined to spend a minimum of two hours each day on my novel. Since then my computer broke down and I was required to order a new one. We had “smoke week” here on the coast from the Read more

  • My New Computer Arrived Yesterday – caps don’t work on my old one

    my new computer is not available for use, yet. my husband, thankfully, is setting it up for me. i use scrivener for my writing files. we were able to get a 45 percent discount on the updated version, but had to hunt down a receipt, take a screen shot, email it to scrivener, have them Read more

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