NIGHT DREAMS AND MYTHS

Dreamtime figures into so much of my fiction. I just love dreams, don’t you? I love playing them back and figuring them out and seeing what they’re trying to tell me. I Just Came Here to Dance opens each chapter with a night dream of the main character, each building...

APPRECIATE LIFE AND OTHER BS

You know, some days are just annoying. And some, kinda awful. And sometimes, rotty stuff lasts for more than a day or fourteen . . . Despite best efforts, now and then (hopefully only now and then!) a sack of manure gets dropped on your doorstep.  Happens to us all. ...

4 THINGS TO SPREAD JOY: The Labrador Way

Don’t you just love doing so?  When you know that something you did causes someone to smile, caused a burden to lighten, brought a ray of sunshine to a cloudy day.  Isn’t that the coolest thing?  And don’t we all wish we could spread more of it, both to others and...

HUNTERS AND GATHERERS AND LUNCH DATES, OH MY!

So of course we all have things we do well and those we don’t—traits and gifts and all those sorts of things.  We’re better at some efforts and try to steer clear of the ones we’re not.  And some of us realize that more clearly than do others. A dear friend of my...

WARNING: IGNORANCE IS BLISS

You know, it just is.  We laugh about that in derogatory terms of folks who know nothing.  But I’m talking about the ignorance of suffering. Life is full of heartache, and none more than when we lose someone we love.  There’s a weird quirk in my brain when that...

GET OUT OF YOUR WAY, GIRL

I am the world’s best at shooting my own self in the foot. You know how it is—you’re on the journey, goals in mind, clicking off one task after another, knowing you’re getting somewhere, and all of a sudden you make some bone-head move that sets you back, oh, about...