Almost Like it Never Happened My weekly recap blog is being delivered a day early. If you’ve been following me for a while you might remember all of the water leaks we’ve had in our house since moving

I hope you’ve all had a great week! Mine has been extraordinarily productive. This week I dove, head first, into drafting the chapters for the new novel, Portraits of the Hearthhold. I’m working on chapters

When I heard the news of Lizelle’s passing this morning and it was as if someone knocked the wind out of me. A gut punch, for sure. I hadn’t planned on doing a post on Hive today but felt compelled to

In Loving Memory of Our Dear Lizelle ❤️ It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share the devastating news that our dear @lizelle, founder of the Silver Bloggers community, has passed away following

It’s already been five days since I last posted. That’s a strange feeling considering I published a blog here almost every single day for the last decade. It’s growing less strange with each day that goes

Attempting to do difficult things is undoubtedly good for the soul. Even if we don’t accomplish what we originally set out to achieve we end up stretching beyond previously conceived limits, evolving,

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!