Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to be a writer and tell my own stories. With the release of Someone Found, my third novel and fifth published book, earlier this month, I’ve been feeling very reflective. I am nowhere close to figuring things out. However, now that I’ve got several years of storytelling under […]
Two Birthdays & a #Giveaway!
Not Until Forever (book 1 in my Hope Springs series) turns ONE later this month! Which means I’ve now been on this indie publishing journey for a year. When I first started last January, I have to confess that I had no idea what would happen or how it would turn out. But after much […]
Doin’ It Right by Mary Manners
“If you’re going to do something, then do it right.” Those words, spoken by my father, came to me the winter of my thirteenth year as I delivered newspapers along my route on the streets of Elmwood Park, a suburb of Chicago. It was the winter of 1976 and we were in the clutch of […]
Love is Still Alive!
“You’re too young to think of marriage.” “You guys must have been cradle robbers!” “Tsk tsk. Kids having kids.” Thirty-five years ago, on August 30, 1980, my husband and I said our marriage vows to each other. I was 21. He was two months shy of that mark. Four months later we were expecting our […]