Tag: Rite of Reckoning
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Healing the Broken Circle
When I was a little girl, the song I heard playing all the time in my home was Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Maybe it was a super popular song at the time, or maybe it was popular in my own home because it was so soothing to my mother in those fast months when…
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Haunted Houses and the Ghosts of Tampa
When I first moved into a remodeled 100-year-old bungalow in Tampa, I wondered if it was haunted. After all, that’s a long time, and I do believe in ghosts. It took a year and a half before “something happened.” I’ve seen a couple of ghosts over the years, plus two angels (that I know of),…
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How a Green Cemetery Found Its Way into My Novel
In the third installment of my Rites of Passage trilogy, Rite of Reckoning, Lauren’s two close friends from childhood — and her mother’s neighbors — own a “green cemetery.” Virgil and Dixon have returned to their hometown after their mother’s death and have bought the homestead and land where their mother first fell in love.…
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25 in ’25: March Wins
In my plan to release 25 new Intellectual Property (IP) products in 2025, February was NOT a win, and March was significantly less than desired, but for good reason. Near the end of January, the DOGE and a bunch of Executive Orders put my life’s work in Acquisition and Contracting on hiatus, maybe permanently. It…
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25 in ’25: January Wins
In my plan to release 25 new Intellectual Property (IP) products in 2025, January was a win. Keep in mind that each book could become several different IP releases. In other words, one product might be in print, ebook, audiobook, full-cast audiobook, German translation. I get to set my own rules here, and part of…
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Alice Munro’s Daughter Hits Close to Home
I could read only so much of the OpEd penned by Alice Munro’s daughter. I might have gotten a hundred words or so in, and I had to stop. It was too close to the bone to continue. The OpEd, entitled “My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro,…
