What lesson did I learn from a spy show? My husband & I started watching a 6 part spy series the other day, "The Night Manager...

We’ve all heard of Christmas in July.  Several channels are running holiday movies, some shows have craft and cooking segments showing you ...

Last month, I fell in love. With bears and moose, mountain bluebirds and coyotes, owls and bison. To clarify, I fell in love with Yellows...

It is a writer's job to draw readers into the fictional story so completely that they forget the real world. Our goal is to render them ...

I’ve been really stuck lately on my current work in progress.  Like STUCK, stuck.  I hit over the halfway mark, and I didn’t know what ne...

In this everyday hectic, fast-paced, not-so-nice world, I  need to remind myself to stop and smell the roses.  Not always literally, altho...

Spies. Espionage. CIA. Covert ops. MI6.  I love anything to do with spies in movies and books.  I honestly think I fell in love with t...

What is Love? Merriam Webster’s definition of love: a   (1) :   strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties   ...

I'm pretty much a loner, and need to escape the daily grind of a big city and a demanding day job. So when I'm taking a break from ...

Christmas is my favorite time of the year.  I love the lights, the trees, the food, the traditions, and the spirit of the holiday.  I made ...

As I was deciding what to write about for today, I realized it’s Thanksgiving this week, and I have so much to be thankful for. (But honest...

Last month I wrote about doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November, in which authors write a 50,000 novel. In a month. Th...

About twice a year, I start getting itchy, twitchy, and b…er, witchy, and I know it’s time to get away from the city of concrete and back i...

I found myself thinking of tribes yesterday, and how I have been a part of several very different ones over the years. Tribes evolve over t...

I’m one of those people who dreams vividly and in color – I always have. It boggles my mind when my husband tells me he doesn’t dream, or t...

I was thinking about crushes the other day, and happened to think I covered a lot of firsts with my own first crush, Donny Osmond.  He wa...

@sloanebcollins  #birthingkittens  #mommacat  #ourthreeboys  #amwriting A little over a year ago, a pregnant stray cat chose us to come...

Next week I’ll be 14 years older than my mother. Somehow, she’s perpetually 36. (Okay, who’s doing the math?)  Yes, I have a big birthday c...

I want to enter a short story in my publisher’s call for submissions for a Christmas anthology, and even though that desire is there, I was...

Hi, everyone.  This is my first official post as a Plotting Princess, and I’m thrilled to be here.  I’ve been trying to decide what to wr...