Doing Just Fine November 2025 Dear Reader, I’ve been thinking about the next year as I flip through my 2026 planner to decide on page formats and add quotes to boost me through the weeks. I've been feeling burnt out and while there is plenty of reason for that, I thought I had built up more reserves. Where did my ‘reserves’ go? I wondered if I have been playing at being an extrovert (haha) for the last few years while all along everything about me screams introvert. So I’m planning to see how...

Doing Just Fine October 2025 Dear Reader, It’s the last three months of the year, and I’m ready to tuck away for winter. I’m ready to tuck away for the entire next year. I’ve sent my latest manuscript off to my agent, and by the time she sends notes back it will likely be too late in the year to submit to publishers even if I could turn revisions around fast. Although I had hoped to sign a book contract this year, I’ve accepted the slower timeline. Maybe it will happen next year. Maybe this...

Doing Just Fine September 2025 Dear Reader, I hope you had a good August. That month has always seemed to run me down. It wasn't historically hot, if anything it was cooler than years past. But my body only knows the press of humidity and heat, and it is weary of it. We decided against taking any big trips this year, and that too casts its own pallor over me. Everything becomes same-sy on top of the daily dissonance of living and working in the states. I've noticed the stories I'm pulled...