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As we prepare to say goodbye to 2024 and welcome in 2025, the stockings are hung, the presents are wrapped, and the fire glows warmly in our home. The holidays and the end of the year always fill me with excitement and reflection. While 2024 didn’t go entirely as planned for me and my family, […]

Hallelujah, fall is finally here! October always brings the most significant change in the year for me. It marks the end of summer BBQs and backyard pool parties and lays the holidays at my doorstep. Cooler nights replace the scorching heat as the sun loses her intensity. Though I won’t start decorating for Thanksgiving until […]

I can’t believe spring is here. The only thing that excites me more than spring was the release of Hawthorne Manor on May 2, 2023. This story is a humorous exploration of the foibles of aging and the beauty that exists in a found family. The book is filled with witty banter and eccentric characters […]

Hawthorne  Manor Hawthorne Manor is available today! In addition to being offered in paperback, and eBook formats, for the first time ever, it will be available in hardback as well. This story is a poignant yet humorous exploration of the foibles of aging and the beauty that exists in a found family. The setting is […]

When I first decided to write this month’s blog, I was thinking about Valentine’s Day and what I would do this year for my spouse of thirty-eight years. Initially, my go-to was what I could buy him because that’s the love language I speak. You may find yourself asking, as I did many years ago, […]

As we begin our holiday season, I want to wish you a happy holiday and check in to let you know what I’ve been up to these last couple of months. Writing and staying in the creative space in 2021 and 2022 has been challenging for me, to say the least. My current work, Hawthorne […]

On the first of February, my family and I celebrated the Chinese New Year with one of our favorite cuisines—Chinese food. Within the Chinese culture, some say that on this day, you are supposed to eat something green for good fortune because green is the color of money. We chose a delicious stir-fried green bean […]

Do you enjoy all four seasons of the year, or do you dread the cold or hate the sweltering heat? Do you have a favorite season? As much as I love summer, my favorite season is fall. After months of scorching temperatures here in the Central Valley of California (and this year, we had sixty-four […]

It’s been six short years since I retired from law enforcement and made the switch to being an author. Trust me when I say the two are polar opposites, but it was a welcome switch. When I was a young adult entering law enforcement at twenty-one, I was already a private person. I’d already stopped […]

In the literary world, the question authors are often asked is “Why did you write the book?” I personally love that question because the answer that most authors give is that the story was somehow personal to them—that they themselves connected with the story or characters in a way that drew them to write the […]

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