Beautiful friends and partners in crime: I’m super HAPPY to announce the launch of my second book: WHAT IS POSSIBLE FROM HERE.

For fans of short fiction, this is a collection of previously published and unpublished stories, set in exotic locales like Seattle, Portland, Sonoma, Los Angeles, and Lancaster, PA.

The book is available on both Barnes & Noble (for those who prefer a bookstore) and Amazon (for you Prime users…you know who you are) here are the links:

PS: There is a special place in book heaven for you if you buy or download a book, and you leave a review!

This just in: you are cordially invited to Shut Up & Write with a small tribe of talented storytellers each Thursday at 5p Pacific Time.

Register at MeetUp here: https://www.meetup.com/shutupandwritemarincounty

Journal Camp 2020 has begun! Our first session was ah-mazing in so many ways. By tradition, I will post out-takes from the best of the best. It’s raw, it’s real, it’s #journalcamp2020

She had grown restless and one night she pulled out the kitchen shears and went to work on the haircut she had paid too much for almost two months ago and now feared would be lost forever. It wasn’t as easy as it looked. She had sat in beauty shop chairs for decades, resenting the cost while loving the results. “How hard could it be?” she said. “I’ve got an eye for style,” she said. She misjudged the accuracy a beautician’s license conferred, and ended up with the look of mange — bald spots and choppy lines. House arrest might be a blessing after all. In the weeks following her home cut, She remembered the home perm she had given herself when they lived in Phoenix. That was a treatment from which there was no return, no passing Go, no collecting $200. She had been forced to live with the humiliation of a poodle perm until her hair grew long enough to cut out the frizzy parts. She broke up with her stylist then, unable to face her in that bubblegum pink salon with a helmet of straw.

Have you ever noticed how you write a goal in your journal, you forget about it, then it shows up? It’s not magic, it’s #intention. Just sayin’.
#creativityisaverb
#journalmorestressless

Have you ever noticed how you write a goal in your journal, you forget about it, then it shows up? It’s not magic, it’s #intention. Just sayin’.
#creativityisaverb
#journalmorestressless