• Earth Day Every Day

    Happy Earth Day to All who celebrate (that should be everyone, there isn’t a Planet B!) I figure there are two options for today: say well we’re doomed, or take a deep breath and keep on fighting for a better, cleaner, greener tomorrow. It ain’t easy, but I’m choosing the second option. Here’s to HOPE,…

  • April Showers

    It’s update time again! Hope you all are enjoying Spring. Author Garden Whoo hoo, it’s planting time here. The family decided to expand our raised bed herb garden since things have been growing really well—so well that we had to transplant a giant California pineapple sage plant out of the beds and back into the…

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    Writing is Political

    Let’s get this out in the open: Writing is political. Reading is political. Art is political. What do I mean? Do I mean that by reading my books you’ll have to sit through an onslaught of radical thoughts or overtly themed stories about resistance or something? Nope. Because you won’t see that type of language…

  • Into the Bookshop

    Quick update! Guess what? The Mark of the Artist is now in a bookstore! On Saturday, my book joined many other local authors’ books in Old Haunts Bookshop in Granite Bay. I am so stoked to have my book on the shelf. Hopefully some wandering book lover will stop by for a new read and…

  • Friday the 13th Catch Up

    Happy Friday the 13th everyone! In between avoiding black cats and stepping on cracks, how about a quick round up of how life’s going? Work in Progress As anyone who has been reading my blog or following me on social knows, I’m working on a new book. This will be an alternate-history/ steampunk story based…

  • Out My Window on a Foggy January Day

    Hello everyone. Been some time since my last post. I have started a couple of different posts in the time since end of last year and now, but each sounded trite in the face of events unfolding. Yet, no matter how horrendous things have become, I know that ART and CREATIVITY are what I bring…