We ventured into Minneapolis a few nights ago to celebrate our 19th wedding anniversary a day early with dinner at Esther’s Table and the Beck concert at the Orpheum theatre. The dinner was decent, we

Today I wanted to share a sample story from my new book, Walking With the Muse and a bit of backstory about it. During my decades of writing the spaces I’ve had to create have sometimes been less than

You really don’t ever forget or get over it. Each of us is like a ball of yarn that gathers everything — the joys and hurts, praise and harsh words, triumphs and sins, losses and wins. People can be

I talked a little bit about how I’m trying to actively support other indie authors in a recent post, The Tapering. Well, it seems synchronicity, or the universe, or whatever higher power dictates these

Nights are cooler. The leaves are turning. The squirrels are fattening up and burying acorns as if their lives depended on it (because they do.). This is the time of the year when thoughts turn to warmth

HiveFest 2026 & EBC - September Buzz 🐝 Dear Hive Community❗ Time flies. I barely noticed September slipping by: its first weeks went into preparing for HiveFest and the European Blockchain Convention,

Remember Forest Gump? He seemed to be everywhere when anything of significance in history was happening. The same might be said of Sidney Reilly, the eponymous character in the British TV limited series,

I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for a good fringe-theory or conspiracy. As a Gen-X’r I was raised on old black and white reruns of The Twilight Zone from the 50’s and early 60’s, late night Alfred Hitchcock

It’s so hard to believe that it’s been nearly a month since the launch of my collection of short stories, Walking With the Muse. That first month after a book launch is always extremely intense from both

It's truly hard to believe that I have been enjoying the company of so many wonderful people here on the Hive Blog for ten years. Time, whether it seemingly moves fast or slow, manages to slip by in the

It has been said that every year, on St. Patrick's Day, all New Yorkers are Irish. Certainly the history of the city was marked by waves of Irish immigrants. My in-laws, my husband's parents, were among

Ninety-eight percent! Junk DNA. Useless. Worthless. How convenient to say that when you want to lead humanity into a total mess?

Here’s a totally frivolous but extremely interesting Grok/AI finding. My late father used to make up or intentionally mispronounce words (it was kind of his thing). One word that he used for “fart” always

It's everywhere!

I've been listening to JRE Podcast (#2545) with Jesse Michels in bite-sized chunks over the last few days and was introduced to an idea that completely reframed my ideas surrounding the origins of human

His compass fell into the river and was swallowed by a carp. "Oh dear Lord, I am lost,” Emin despaired. He looked at the dense forest. With luck he could retrace his steps and return to the village.

Thank you to everyone who’s already picked up a copy of my new book, Walking With the Muse. I’m thrilled to say it’s already surpassing my expectations. It's encouraged me to publish another book next

During this last trip I was reminded of one of the many reasons I love to travel. Solo travel in many ways leaves you more approachable as well as makes you more likely to initiate conversations with

There are only overnight trains running between Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk, my hometown. The journey takes at least 9 hours. Sometimes up to 12 hrs. Recently, however, an extra day train was added, and I

If you read my last post you know I’ve been in Washington D.C. visiting my friend Juan and his wife Margo over the past four days. Juan and I kept a longstanding tradition of going on one weekend trip