I found this recipe on the PBS site. It was submitted by a home cook, so here's a link to the original recipe. However, I modified it to...

Either Stacy Livingston Vanbecelaere or Reed Livingston Bates—both are my daughters but I can’t remember which one—gave me a gorgeous...

December 17 was a day that will live in infamy, that is, in my skeletal world. According to two different orthopods, both of my knees...

I just wanted to pass along a link to an "Author of the Day" interview about Out and In: a mystery-thriller. This is on ManyBooks.Net,...

A lack of energy Saturday morning reminded me that when I worked a full-time day job, I used to unwind by watching PBS cooking shows. So,...

I planted a tiny garden after we moved into our new spot. My seeds included yellow squash, zucchini, okra, green beans, eggplant (globe),...

A former colleague and friend—or so I thought—got pissed and de-friended me on Facebook because I said something she didn’t like. Aren’t...

Dumb me, but I had scheduled a neighborhood open house for last night (Thursday), not considering that I was having stem cell and...

About a year ago, I started ordering delivery from Randall's, a grocery chain in Austin affiliated with Safeway. I have a Randall's...

I recently made my world famous potato salad for a party. After making it over the past many decades, I've decided to share my secret...

March 11, 2019 Wow. I googled my author name today and found some stuff I thought had been deleted. Also, I found a thing that teed...

February 22, 2019 I wasn't chosen to present at the Academy Awards, so I'm presenting The Spammer Awards instead. I got a spam letter via...

February 17, 2019 Whew! What a whirlwind four days, with more than 50 informative break-out sessions about publishing, skewed in tracks...

February 16, 2019 Three days into the mega San Francisco Writers Conference, I am a bit overwhelmed by the plethora of advice. When you...

January 31, 2019 Reviews and ratings are an author's lifeblood. We try hard to write stories that rate at least a good four stars, and we...

January 23, 2019 Our male Cockalier (Cocker/Cavalier) Lord Byron has a favorite spot upstairs, a covered porch off our TV-watching room....

January 12, 2019 Our two dogs are named Meryl Streep and Lord Byron. They are 26 and 30 pounds, respectively, long-haired, black and tan,...

January 8, 2019 I’ve just finished writing a novel called Backstory. It’s a fictional account that pretends to be the truth behind an...

December 10, 2018 I don’t know how many parties you’ve been to this season, but my husband and I are already partied out. He even...

December 7, 2018 A year ago, Bill and I bought a bottle of Dom Perignon to celebrate some BIG MOMENT, if/when it came...kind of like...