In all the reporting, analysis and dissection of the events in Paris in which jihadists murdered innocent people, then pulled the plug on their suicide vests and blew themselves up, I have yet to hear anyone truly look deep enough into the motivation of the young people who did this horrific deed…Continue Reading on The […]
Writing is something I’ve done off and on all of my life, however, it was much later as an adult, when I finally decided to share my struggles via writing, that I truly became a writer and finished and published a book. Writing is cathartic for me— it allows me to “drain” my mind of thoughts that […]
I call myself a reformed Type A. A classic over-achiever with her heart set on a job running a PR team, always climbing the ladder. Then, one day on a rare care trip alone, the first chapter of book I never knew I wanted to write started spinning in my mind. I knew the characters’ […]
I believe an obsessive love of reading often leads to a desire to write. I spent hours alone as a child, reading everything from Enid Blyton to Roald Dahl. When I left Zambia to go to boarding school at the tender age of 9, I discovered I could bring joy to my school friends by […]
My mother left our Oklahoma farm when I was in first grade. I used to sit on the steps of our one-room schoolhouse with my dog and read for hours during recess and after school. Books first offered me an escape from my chaotic world and later security and comfort, which is why I began to […]
Writing is my first love. It’s an innate gift from God, which I cherish completely. I loved sharing stories with my mother as a child. I would blurt, “I want to be an author one day.” She would smile, without uttering a word. Pure motivation! Writing is emotionally significant to me because it allows me […]
With parents who were reporters at The Washington Post during the Watergate Era, I grew up in the newsroom, surrounded by typewriters, passionate people and the smell of newspaper ink. I marinated in the ink as a child and it became infused in my blood, like an I.V. drip. I have always written and have […]
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