This is a placeholder book cover for the next Vista Security Series book, Forced to Trust. I was making good progress on it in 2020, and then well, you know what all happened these last few years. It especially set me in a spin because a novel va...

  Car Battery   This will be short, I need to work on my fiction writing. But in case you wondered, yes, it’s still hotter than blazes in Texas. So hot that my car battery spontaneously died at work one day last week. My daughter came to the rescue a...

  With inflation on the rise and the prospects of a recession, or even worse, a depression on the horizon, I thought I would start this Frugal Friday blog and share tips on how I learned to be frugal over the years of raising and homeschooling six ki...

My current works-in-progress include a new vampire story, a sequel to Blood on a Texas Moon, and Forced to Trust, the next story in the Vista Security Series. However, given that I’m getting both stories organized (yes, I’m a planner) and even though...

  Now that I’m writing again, I’m going to start trying to blog in a somewhat consistent manner. (How’s that for wishy-washy?) On Mondays, I plan to call my blogs Monday Musings and keep you up to date with what is going on. Ok, to be honest, not muc...

  This is my fourth year working curbside at a large, busy grocery store chain. In the previous years, I have seen some extraordinary changes, not so much from the store’s curbside itself, although there have been changes and upgrades there, definite...

I’m working on my website, found some links that don’t work so I’m fixing that today. (Yes, this has to do with the changes that’s happening that I mentioned in the previous blog post, trying to get super-duper organized for upcoming said changes.) T...

Just a quick update to let you know that something new is in the works. If you read my Have Garden, Will Travel post, no, the house hasn’t sold yet. But…there are exciting things on the horizon. One thing I always admired about Roberto Baggio, who wa...

I know you’re all busy “working” on this cyber Monday but maybe you’re also using your breaks to get online and grab some bargains. Since your time is limited, I’ll make this quick…for the holiday season, I’m running a big sale on my Vista Security S...

For my writer friends! This is really last minute, I know, and sorry for that, I am still in the process of downsizing, packing up and moving (seems to be never ending, if you missed why, read this post).  But for a few more days Holly Lisle’s short...