As 2025 closes and a new year begins, I am – finally, hallelujah! – writing the last chapter of my epic historical fiction Netsuke novel/trilogy. After a year filled with challenges, blessings and slow-but-sure transformations, I look forward to 2026.
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2024: A Year of Trials and Miracles
Looking back over the year, I see many underlying themes of grace and comfort — not to mention several timely bona-fide miracles — amid what was undoubtedly the hardest year of my life. Even if my only achievement of 2024 has been surviving it despite everything, I have not lost my faith, my joy, my hope nor my desire to carry on
Postscript: My Lemonade
Another pithy saying people often blithely use is: ‘When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.’ Being that I am a writer, the only thing I know how to do with all the sh** that has happened this year — first my dad’s death, then my husband’s a few short months later — is to write about it.Continue reading “Postscript: My Lemonade”
‘IT STARTS LIKE THIS’: An Unexpected Journey
What do you think of when you hear the quote, ‘Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans’*? Does one of those delightful ‘God incidences’ spring to mind? Or perhaps you were just out on your normal coffee break when you lock eyes with the person you instantly know is the love ofContinue reading “‘IT STARTS LIKE THIS’: An Unexpected Journey”
Small Writer at Large 