This past weekend two of my fellow authors here on the blog, Karen Witemeyer and D'Ann Mateer, joined me in Dallas for an event at my church called Books & Brunch. It was wonderful to spend time with Karen and D'Ann in person again. It had been a few years! We shared dinner Friday night before meeting back up at the gathering Saturday morning. I've been asked if we coordinated our … [Read more...]

Hi, friends!  Happy Wednesday. Excited to be back with you. Most readers generally know me as a suspense writer. One who writes the books that hopefully keep you up at night and your door locked ☺ Some know me as a romantic suspense writer, where it’s a combination of the two, but typically, the romance comes second in most readers’ eyes. But, to me, the romance is just as pivotal, if not … [Read more...]

How many of you have been to Dollywood before? We visited last week and had a wonderful time. Dollywood, originally Silver Dollar City before Dolly Parton's partnership in 1986, is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee near where Dolly was born in a small one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, a rural community just outside Sevierville, in the foothills of the beautiful Smoky Mountains. … [Read more...]

I may have posted about this before, but it's an annual spring tradition for me. When I was in high school, every year Mrs. Williams would lead us out of the classroom, down the sidewalk, and to the balcony beneath a sprawling live oak. There she'd look up into the canopy and receive Robert Frost's poem: Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a … [Read more...]

No, this is not a McDonalds ad, but if you are old enough to remember that slogan, then I thank you for for joining me at the Old Timers' Table. LOL. Do you have short activities that you like to use as a palate cleanser of sorts during your day? Perhaps you take a break to walk around your neighborhood or play a game on your phone or read a chapter in a book (only ONE chapter, otherwise it no … [Read more...]