Thoughts on Worry
I had a strange thing happen on my Las Vegas-to-Boise flight home. I sat in a seat next to the window and when two young women sat next to me, I was pleased to have these seatmates (as opposed to business men who hog the armrests). Immediately upon sitting, the middle-seater turned her back to […]
Thoughts on Texas Driving
First let me preface what I’m going to say with, I’m a native Texan and I love Texas. I have lots of family there and I hope to live there again someday after everyone forgets I said all this. Now, let me talk about Texas driving. It’s fast. It’s assertive. And I wonder why does […]
Thoughts on Love
Last week I attended our annual church camp meeting in Oklahoma. A lot of people were there that I didn’t know well, but there were also lots of people that I knew from way back. Seeing old friends again makes my heart swell with joy and happy memories come flooding back to me. The feeling […]
Thoughts on London
Whew! Home at last! Hubby and I took our very first outside-the-U.S. trip (not counting our little forays into Mexican border towns—those don’t count). We spent a week in London and 2 ½ weeks in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The trip took care of several items on my bucket list. When […]
Thoughts on Writing
I attended the West Texas Writers Academy earlier this month. I looked forward to it for a year and it went by so quickly. For several hours a day, I was in a room full of wild imaginations throwing ideas back and forth for every genre. Aliens, halflings, elderly adventurers, Einstein, lion people, and a […]
Thoughts on Mentoring
One of the authors who put on the West Texas Writers Academy is the New York Times and USAToday best-selling author, Jodi Thomas, who writes historical romance novels. She’s written over 40 novels and was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. So when she said I could take her to lunch […]
More Thoughts on Ireland
Dublin is one of the sites of what the Irish call The Troubles. Before The Troubles, a minority of Loyalists (loyal to the British crown) oppressed the Nationalists (loyal to Irish nationality) and times were bad. Protests against the governing regime started in the late 1960s. Over time, events escalated until January 1972 when British troops […]
Thoughts on Ireland
If you had told me a decade ago that I’d be in Northern Ireland, I’d have laughed at you. Northern Ireland? The land of bombings and shootings and tension? No way! So I was surprised to find that Belfast, the city once full of turmoil, is now an exciting place with lots of really nice […]