Hi ,My daughter graduated!We had a big weekend—my daughter graduated last Friday! This is my favorite picture from that day:Ana and her dad have a special relationship. Jason just hit the one-year anniversary of his stomach-cancer diagnosis. I'm so g...

Hi ,Audiobook GiveawayMy author friend Bryan Lienesch is a fantastic thriller author—I've read his entire series, and they just get better as they go along! They're about a man who's ex-special forces, and he uses his hard-won skills to locate and sa...

One year ago today, Jason got his stomach cancer diagnosis. (The screenshot below is of the texts I sent to my parents and siblings right after we got the call.)I asked Jason what the best and worst parts of this cancer journey have been. He said the...

Jason’s Rradiation is complete!Today, he had his final session of radiation on his prostate and on the metastatic lesion in his back. He is hopefully now cured of prostate cancer (🎉🥳🎊🍾!), and we also hope the lesion is gone. A couple of the...

Hi ,98 Years YoungMy dad recently got to visit his mom in Albuquerque. While there, they celebrated her 98th birthday (a bit early). I snagged this picture from a video my uncle recorded.Isn't she beautiful? If you met her in person, she'd be proud t...

Hi ,Check Out this Plant!As I was walking my dog the other day, I saw this plant.Now, I've walked by this area hundreds of times, and this plant has never before looked like this, with a huge stalk and blooms rising 10 – 15 feet into the sky!I posted...

Update on Jason Anderson:Jason started radiation yesterday. It's in two small spots: his prostate and the new spot of cancer (metastasized from the stomach) that showed up in his back at his last PET scan. He'll get a total of 5 treatments over the c...

Hi ,Seven years ago ...Seven years and two days ago, I started writing my first novel!I've now published over ten books, and I'm so glad I made that fairly spur-of-the-moment decision just to start.If you've never read any of my books and would like...

Hi ,A White SquirrelIn a parking lot the other day, I saw this gorgeous white squirrel!I assumed it was albino, but it turns out most white squirrels are actually leucistic (another form of color change that's linked to a genetic mutation). Here's a...

Hi ,Pics From My Narrator CruiseI'm going to share more pictures than usual, since I have so many good ones from the cruise I took last week with fellow audiobook narrators (several of whom are authors too, which made it extra cool)! Let's jump right...