Category: Books
Posts about books — mine and others’. Behind-the-scenes notes on writing them, reviews of the ones that shape my thinking, and reflections on what gets put into print and what doesn’t. Browse the full catalog on the Books page, or read select titles free on-site in the Library.
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I Experiment with Tarot— and Tarot Experiments with Me
Another one of the eye openers I had while in Daytona was realizing that I do have a gift for certain things. It’s just not necessarily in the way I thought it would be or should be or in the way that others have their gifts; therefore, to me I felt ungifted. From the Bookshelf…
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Building, Building, Building
I’ve been back from Daytona for almost 2 weeks now, and I’m beginning to feel that surge of “good energy” fade. The teal of the ocean was definitely good for me. From the Bookshelf Rite of Awakening — Southern Gothic with bite, Book One of the Rites of Passage. Available direct from the author →…
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Why Can’t I Be Like Other Women?
What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I be like other women? Why can’t I just be like every other divorced woman within 10 years of my age—and half the married women I know—and just go get me a fuck-buddy or two or three or ten and be fine with that? Logically speaking, it would fit…
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Juggling
I’m pretty good at juggling. In fact, it’s one of my strengths as an employee and a human being. I juggle. I always have a lot of work, a lot of projects, a lot of irons in the fire, pots boiling— whatever you want to call it. There’s always something going…
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“I Will Never Leave You”
Memorial Day has come and gone. Last year, I stood in the spitting rain and watched electric guitarists make music and acquaintances get drunk and I heeded the guidance from both friends and the Ether to “play more.” This year, for Memorial Day, all I did was work, once again playing catch-up so that I…
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Huge Shifts
I feel like I’m watching train wrecks in slow motion. It’s all too heavy and too big and too powerful to stop. There’s nothing I can do or say to make any of it stop, to put brakes on these locomotives, and all I can do is sort of back off far enough to watch…
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Science and Psychic Data Points
The writers’ conference in Daytona had promised to focus on paranormal thrillers as well as psychic fiction. I’m fascinated with psychics and intuitives and how they actually see or hear things. From the Bookshelf Rite of Awakening — Southern Gothic with bite, Book One of the Rites of Passage. Available direct from the author →…
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Symbols and Dirty Little Secrets
Some things change. Some stay the same. From the Bookshelf The Lost Teachings of Dead Monks — a magical library, forbidden knowledge, and a librarian facing the fears she has manifested. Available direct from the author → Or read it free in my online Library. I get a blast from the past while sitting on…
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Faith in the Future You Cannot See
While in Daytona, I meet up with a High Priestess friend I haven’t seen in ages. We have a long-standing tradition of reading cards for each other whenever we do get together in the physical realm, even though I’ve never considered myself any good at it and she’s quite the ex- pert, especially with Kabbalah-based …
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Oppression
The last time I felt this particular sense of oppression, I was in my early 20’s. I had forgotten this feeling, or why, but now it comes back with the strength of anything powerful that’s been buried for an entire adult lifetime. From the Bookshelf The Lost Teachings of Dead Monks — a magical library,…
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Of a Size
The third epiphany from my trip to Daytona has to do with body image. Shannon had tried to get me to buy a new swimsuit before we left home and I’d given her a maybe at best. I like swimsuits, just not so crazy about me in swimsuits. Even when I was a size 5,…
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Impoverished Thinking
Maybe I’m just going to have to remember to look outside my immediate environment and check myself as far as the reality that I’ve either created or has been created for me. In regard to my career and my creative projects, I came to realize in Daytona that I’ve been basing much of my future…
