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November 19, 2025

From the Recipe Box: Homemade Salisbury Steak.

This is another recipe that I found on TikTok, and I was pleasantly surprised that I had a majority of the ingredients in the house already. I love Salisbury steak dinner, but my only experience with them is the tv dinners, and while they are okay, anytime I tried to make it myself using a […]
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Published on November 19, 2025 06:00

October 31, 2025

Writing Update: October 2025

Look who’s posted updates two months in a row! During the month of October, I had two stories down to work on; my second Sci-Fi story Cashe, and my high fantasy, but as I spent most of the summer working on the latter, I decided to spend the second half of the month with Cashe. […]
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Published on October 31, 2025 06:04

October 22, 2025

From the Recipe Box: New Recipe!

I discovered a wealth of recipes on Tiktok, and I’ve made a few of them. Most look pretty easy, and I saved a bunch of slow cooker ones that I can’t wait to try out! Recipes, like the one below, are a great autumn dish that uses fresh veggies, some of which, I got from […]
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Published on October 22, 2025 06:00

October 21, 2025

Of Writers and Prose: Something I like about writing Cashe.

As I’m still working on my scifi story, I thought it would be fun to tell you one of the things I like about it. In this futuristic world, there are a lot of new and powerful drugs, and for this story I got the chance to make up names for several, not to mention […]
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Published on October 21, 2025 06:00

October 17, 2025

The Green Side of Life: Hoyas.

I think I’m a little obsessed. If you’ve seen any of my other plant posts, you know I’m trying to recreate the jungle Husband and I had when we first got married. Back then, I had 52 different varieties of plants, and while I’m not confident that all those would survive in this apartment, I’m […]
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Published on October 17, 2025 06:00

September 30, 2025

Writing Update for September 2025.

Oh my, it has been a hot minute since I posted anything here. I am so sorry. I’ve been playing around with other platforms, and between work and the summer heat, I didn’t do as much writing on anything as I’d liked. Yet I have done some! I’m back on my writing queue of working […]
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Published on September 30, 2025 06:00

September 28, 2025

June 20, 2025

The Green Side of Life: African Violets.

While I wait for the first harvest of my balcony garden, I thought I’d talk a little about my houseplants. Now I think you know about the apartment jungle hubby and I had when we first got married, and I’ve been trying to recreate that again here. The first plants I bought right away were […]
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Published on June 20, 2025 07:05

February 28, 2025

Writing Update: February 2025.

Oh wow, it’s been a while since I wrote one of these and I do apologise. I’ve been focusing on TikTok videos to promote my books, and my blog has suffered. I’ve stayed away from most social media except for TikTok and Instagram. There’s too much crap on the other sites and it just makes […]
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Published on February 28, 2025 07:05

January 13, 2025

COVER REVEAL!

Here it is! I am proud to show you all the cover AND LINKS for my new novel, Eva and Skye’s Magical Hair Solution! It’s 1982, and fourteen-year-old Evandra Shade befriends earth-muffin, Skye Daniels. Their friendship is a salvation from the social pressures of high school, especially when damage to the school is dubiously linked […]
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Published on January 13, 2025 05:51