When you spent nearly ten years of your childhood living in a cage, fighting for your life. This is what it looks like to overcome 🙏 #strength #survivor #fighter instagram.com/p/CZP81FcpeO0/…

Pop quiz: What's more valuable, a five hundred dollar bill you've had in your wallet for 15 years or a newly minted, shiny penny you just found on the ground? The answer goes without saying. Yet some of you are still leaving your spouse of 10, 15, 20 years for a new shiny penny.

Something I've learned in my life: smear campaigns tell you far more about the person running it than the person they are trying to smear.

His favorite place to be 😊

#writers, if you had known beforehand how difficult and oftentimes fruitless of an endeavor writing a book would be, would you have done it anyway? My answer is probably not, but I'm glad I didn't know.

What a difference 4 weeks (and a lot of sleepless nights up feeding a squirrel) can make!

A parent should be someone who helps their child find their wings. Not clip them and tell them they can not fly. #amthoughts #Parents

Somehow, my four-year-old son's "compliments" always come out wrong... raising-ding-dongs.blogspot.…

Because sometimes I draw cartoons and stuff... getit-daily-dose.blogspot.co…

What takes minutes to build in your mind as a scene can take literal hours to construct and put down on paper, or is that just me? #amwriting #truth #WritingCommunity

When your out to dinner with a friend and she says, "You have six kids, right?" and you shut down, bc you thought you were out for a nice leisurely dinner and weren't prepared for a pop quiz.

Seriously? Just watched my neighbor lead his dog right up to my trash bin and let him pee all over it. Kiiinda want to get all five of my sons to go pee on theirs. *repeats to self: love thy enemies. Love thy enemies...* but for real. Who does that?

You guuuys, I'm having so much fun writing this book!! It has all the humor and warmth that I love to infuse in my writing but with an added bonus of a love triangle that is about to get REAL, especially since a wedding is being thrown into the mix. Gaaah! wattpad.com/story/228638360-…

"Please do not feel that this is a reflection on your writing.  We very much enjoyed reading what you sent us, and felt it was engaging." I would have preferred an offer for publication in place of a rejection, but at least they were nice about it.

With all these political campaigning ads flooding into my mailbox, is it too much to ask for at least one "Vote for Pedro" pamphlet to come in the mail?

I guess I really am just a theif 😳 getit-daily-dose.blogspot.co…

I have always been bad about mixing up my kids' names when I call them. But, lately, I've been taking it up a notch and started calling them by characters in my WIP's names. 😄 #writers

..as I stared back at my pitiful visage, I had to acknowledge one small triumph. In all my inner turmoil and musings, my mind hadn't gone to its dark place once; my only new scar remained un-visible, enclosed within my ribcage just to the left of my breastbone. #RomanceReaders

I really don't see what this 14-yr-old girl sees in my 12-yr-old son. Doesn't she know a 12-yr-old boy has the brain of a 10-yr-old girl?? Really, I wish I could go back in time to middle school and tell myself to not waste my time liking any of the boys at that age. They're dumb