Random Musings

Why do you write? What drives you to sweat, swear, and despair over the worlds and characters you create?  What creates the need to put black on white for as… Read more

I don’t understand how we can already be at the tip of August. Where has the rest of the summer gone? Washed away by the copious, cold drops that continually… Read more

Wouldn’t it be amazing to be the kind of writer whose works were read and celebrated for centuries beyond their death? Homer is still read in universities everywhere. The Iliad… Read more

I’m from California. I learned how to rollerskate at Venice Beach. I camped out beside beachside bonfires with friends. I played in the sand as a child, and wave jumped… Read more

I’m sitting in a Costa with an enormous mug of coffee: And I’m just kind of being. The people beside me are discussing psychology type things. The kids across the… Read more

  Would sound similar? I have no idea where I was going with that title. But if you’re interested, I’m blogging under my pen name, Brey Willows, over on the… Read more

Every year it seems to sneak up on me. I’m trundling along, thinking I have everything under control, and then… WHAM! There it is, right under my rather bewildered self.… Read more

She knows the publishing business. And before the book came out, she said, “Don’t read the reviews.” And then she wrote, “DON’T READ THE REVIEWS.”  It’s strange. Out of the… Read more

“She’s written two books, and now she thinks she knows everything.”  I saw this comment on FB the other day. I have no idea who it was about, nor, really,… Read more

There’s nothing like writing about religion to make you ask the big questions; what would Jesus like to eat? If God exists, what would he/she/they wear? Does blue skin burn… Read more