I want to wish all of my family, friends, and readers a very Happy Thanksgiving! May this upcoming year be filled with friendship, love and every blessing you wish for.

I want to wish all of my family, friends, and readers a very Happy Thanksgiving! May this upcoming year be filled with friendship, love and every blessing you wish for.
I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season!
“Wait for me!” my niece yells as she runs after the older kids. But her six-year old legs can’t keep up with the other four in the nine-to-thirteen set. “You’re slow,”…
Sometimes it take a teenager to explain the complexities of what makes a novel work and how to fix a sagging middle.
Let’s raise a glass today to toast Robert Burns, Scotland’s National Poet and the author of Auld Lang Syne.
I hope you all have a wonderful Fourth of July! And thank you for being the best readers an author could have!
Tomorrow night I’m serving my version of the Van Tassel feast that Washington Irving wrote about in his famous spooky story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I’m serving ham and cheese hand pies, roasted chicken in a pumpkin, spiced peach cake, and to accompany it all I’m also making my favorite spiced pear chutney.