A few unconsidered realities of time travel My all-time favorite movie is Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. It’s a time-travel love story, filmed at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan, and released on 3 October 1980. Now, every year a group of fans gets together…

A different take on procrastination I’ve told you about a few of my creative endeavors. I’ve begun the process of sending my middle grade chapter book, Taking Care of Susie, to agents. I never heard back from the latest submission. But I have yet to click the “send” button to…

A liberating thought from someone who has escaped the clutches of a dangerous parent I think my sociopathic mother has convinced herself (and likely others) that I’m dead. Here’s why I think so. When my father died about five years ago, she threw a monster blow-out of a pity party…

His name is Brandon, he’s 10 years old, and he loves his little white dog I have been writing. I promise. But lately, I’ve been spending every spare minute on my next middle grade chapter book. And it’s keeping my fingers and my brain very happily busy. I wrote the…

My experience with a rude taxi dispatcher I live in a mainly rural area just a few miles south of the Canadian border. Yeah, it gets cold in these parts. And for the record, I love it here. For the most part, I have never met a group of people…

Getting a handle on one of my recurring nightmares After I hit the publish button on my last article, the one that detailed my dreams for a pink marble hot tub, I decided to reward my efforts by jumping into the fantasy for a good long soak. I closed my…

“Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.” Neville Goddard I ran across a thought-provoking question the other day. If I were to achieve what I really wanted, how would I feel? Hmm…I wonder. Turns out, this was a great exercise is letting my imagination loose. Let me see, how to…

In fear of the G-word As a rule, I don’t set goals or make New Year’s resolutions. Since I was a little girl, I’ve wondered why I should bother. One way or the other, I knew I wouldn’t be able to achieve them, so why go through all the time…

I think they call that high blood pressure Yes, 181/102 was yesterday’s blood pressure reading. Actually, it was down a bit from last week when the top number was 200-something. And how did I find out I was on the verge of dropping dead at any minute? Last week (Tuesday…