“The idea, a long, long, time ago, was to be able to live decently, and create art. Everything after that was icing on the cake,
Category: Woman
The New Book: Magdalene Aubergine
We barely broke eighty degrees here today. There are still some ninety-degree temperatures predicted into the middle of the month, but today Summer officially began
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Toad the Wet Sprocket. Music from the 1990s, classified as Alternative Rock, and Grunge. I’m listening to it again and it’s speaking to me
Still There Are
Still there are the Moon and the Stars the light of the night to know where we are under the same sky and everything else
When Half-Gods Go
Here we are, can you believe it, going into September. Where does the time go? I’m still reading Carl Sandburg’s big book of Abraham Lincoln.
End of the Summer Stuff
It is the end of the Summer. I’ve been doing end of the Summer stuff. I don’t feel like talking about writing but, I will
Dream Bigger
Do you ever let yourself daydream the most fantastical daydream you can possibly imagine for your life? Some people don’t daydream like that. Others will
Forward
This isn’t what I was going to write about today. I was going to write about dreams, about thinking positive, being happy, and dreaming bigger.
Inspirations
I’ve re-started a Tumblr page, and I’ve created a companion page to this page. The goal is, to keep what is good, to focus on
The Vibe Changed
I’ve been tempted to log back on to twitter, to save my account before the thirty days is up. I’ve resisted that temptation. I’ve
Making Changes, Driving the Car
I am off twitter once and for all and for good. (Only took how many tries?) They just changed their format anyway and, I wasn’t
Earthquake Weather
This implies that I smoke cigarettes. I don’t. I value my lungs. I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was excellent at it. Here’s the
Don’t Fear the Reaper
BOC is one of my favorite bands. I wouldn’t know where to begin to tell of the impact and influence this music has had on
Pigeon Hole
Don’t try to put me in your pigeon hole, don’t tell me how you sold your soul, I don’t really want to know, I’ve got
Danielle Steel
Here’s a great write up/interview of author Danielle Steel at Glamour mag. How has Steel written 179 books? She writes/works twenty to twenty-two hours a
Beyond the Vanity
The next book, the new book, Covenants of Lingering Bones, will be available soon. After much rigmarole, going so far as to set up the
The Last Time We Visited Aldera Dune
The Last Time We Visited Aldera Dune by Teri Skultety, copyright 2018, all rights reserved The last time we visited Aldera Dune,
It’s Me, Pearl.
Itโs Me, Pearl. An Ode to Janis Joplin Itโs never me, itโs you, except that itโs always me, it has never not been me, it
Saturday
You bark-tweet, shout-scream, whisper-dream, some thing into the void, Clamoring for relevance for distribution to the masses the echo back that tells you your voice
The Book That Wasn’t
Going to share a couple of posts today. This first one is about the book that wasn’t, or isn’t, or won’t be. There’s a great
Patti Smith, Just Kids
I loved this memoir from Patti Smith of her early years in New York with Robert Mapplethorpe. Some of the subject matter won’t be everyone’s
Undone
The other day, in promoting my vampire novel, I posted links to chapter excerpts. In reading through those excerpts again myself, I noticed places where
One November, I Published Two Books
I’ve worked hard the last couple of years to get some books published, I’m thinking of them as there were “the first five,” and now
Maybelline Raven and The Wolf.
The year is 1762. Maybelline Raven is waiting patiently along the banks of the Mississippi River for the return of her husband so they may
