• Time Travel Thanksgiving

    I feel like I’ve been traveling through time. Being back home has swept me back into my past, and now I’m home for Thanksgiving for the first time in at least thirty years, possibly, probably longer. In the eighteen years of Thanksgivings before I left for college, I’m quite sure they weren’t all cold and…

  • ALL I GOT FOR #CHRISTMAS, an Excerpt

    A peek inside All I Got For Christmas… Gini pushed open the driver’s door and stepped out into blowing snow and a chill that cut through her Texas coat like it was a puff of smoke. At least it wasn’t as cold as it could be, since it was snowing, but her blood had thinned in…

  • Accused of being an Optimist!

    November is all about being grateful, at least in my world. Yeah, there is some Christmas shopping, but mostly it’s a heightened awareness of the things that go right, and me trying not to dwell in the emotional desert when things don’t go quite right. Count your blessings is such a cliche that sometimes we…