Category Archives: Musings

“…quiet solitude, the forest and the streams, seeking grace in every step.” John Denver’s description is perfect. When you spend time in the Rockies, expect to be overwhelmed by the […]

“A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh…”  Ah, the words of Emily Dickinson in […]

One of the challenges in writing Masque of Honor was how to make the story imminently “readable.”  Have you ever read a book that was written in the 1810 -1820 […]

Recently I was asked this question as part of an ice-breaker exercise: “Name one thing you’d like to do or see in your life that you have not yet seen […]

A typical response on our Selma Mansion Rebirth site when folks would make the comment “Oh if those walls could talk…” was “I’d be running out the front door!” (And […]

Although it’s been crazy hot these past few days, I find it comforting to walk in the late afternoon just before sunset (and before all those pesky mosquitos come out […]

The Russian revolution would depose the Romanov family from its imperial throne and three centuries of the Romanov Dynasty would come to an end on the evening of June 16th […]

A typical response on our Selma Mansion Rebirth site when folks would make the comment “Oh if those walls could talk…” was “I’d be running out the front door!” (And […]

Although it’s been crazy hot these past few days, I find it comforting to walk in the late afternoon just before sunset (and before all those pesky mosquitos come out […]

There is something about these last days of June that take me back to the summers of childhood. I remember so vividly sights, tastes, sounds and smells of those days […]