Category: Uncategorized

I’ve gone through a bit of a hibernation period as a harper.  Not that I haven’t been performing and teaching, but before I started on my Christmas repertoire, I noticed that practicing had become a chore.  I wasn’t looking forward to it the …

Happy Boxing Day, (belated) Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Wonderful Winter Solstice … whatever you choose to celebrate or ignore, I wish it all to you with a homemade candied cherry on top.  I’ve been almost radio silence on this blog for mos…

Another few months, another set of music CDs to entertain me upon my driving … driving … so much driving.  As always, I create CDs with themes, whether it be “House and Home” or “Long Distance” … and then one set that where the connecting th…

Since I’ve had a number of short story sales lately (huzzah!), I’m working on editing a new story to put into submissions soon.  This tale, “Lip Service,” is a contemporary fantasy. where phantasmal creatures resembling bees secrete magical energy…

The Fifth Di … December 2018 issue is now out, with my story, “Super Solutions.”  Check it out:  The Fifth Di – December 2018This is my oddball little superhero reality television show story.  I had so much fun with it, but humor …

One of the reasons I have this Sunday feature is because as a professional harper, music is very important to me, though my listening tastes are quite different from my playing tastes, where I specialize in Celtic and early music, with some contemporar…

Notes from a worldbuilding …The world creation aspect of this project has certainly taken me longer than in the past, but it’s not because of the quantity – and believe me, I have one set of world notes that clocks in at around 50,000 words, as long …

(Past few weeks have been very hectic, hence the radio silence here.  Hope I’m back in action now!)I talked a lot about the various portions of my Scylla and Charybdis playlist during my blog tour, but I don’t think I ever posted the list in …

No posting of my writerly musical musings would be complete without eventually mentioning this gem, which is a pretty accurate depiction of the inside of my brain at times:Bears Dance To Sweet DreamsYes.  Really.

Confession time:  I’m a comma maximalist.I adhere to the formal rules of comma use, even those that some publications and editors have begun to abandon.  I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.  When a comma is indicated for clarity or effect, I …