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It’s nice to be home, and I took the Christmas tree and decorations down a couple of days ago. I was still enjoying the lights, but it was a real tree, and the branches were starting to droop. I was afraid of ornaments falling and breaking. So, alas, everything went down to the basement. I’m […]

It’s Christmastime, and I’m really not sure where the time went this year. My kiddo got another year older, and so did my husband and I. We didn’t have any major health problems this year, and our extended family is all well too, so it was a great year. 2019 was the year I really […]

When I decided to try my hand at fiction, I was nervous. My background is in nonfiction writing, after all. I’d nearly forgotten that I had once had aspirations to right fiction. In fact, in college, I wrote a fantasy novel. It was terrible. It’s handwritten, and the pages are in a box in my […]

We are getting our first big snowfall today. Isn’t it pretty? Yeah, it won’t be so pretty by April when it finally goes away. But oh well—I live in the Northwoods. I’m planning on learning cross country skiing this year, so wish me luck on that! This week, I finished a book (Meatballs, Mistletoe and […]

When I’m out and about, people often ask me what I do. After a brief history of how I’m a veterinarian who practiced small animal medicine for fifteen years and then began a writing and editing business, I always say I’m also an author. Then, they ask me what I write, and I say cozy […]

Since this is my first blog post, I decided to share some things about myself and my writing habits with all of you, my lovely readers. I’m forty-four years old, married, with a six (almost seven)-year-old daughter. We’ve lived in Michigan’s upper peninsula since 2012, and we absolutely love it here. Here’s a picture of […]