Hello! Happy Spring! The last two months have found me on a blogging hiatus and for a very good reason: I was busy revamping my website, Val...

Even if you only have 60 seconds for a gesture drawing, take them! Happy 2024, everyone. A whole new twelve months to explore, create, and ...

  So here we are again: November and National Novel Writing Month and the eternal question: Why am I doing this?? Because I love it, I suppo...

Lakeside, CampNaNoWriMo 2023     Back home from CampNaNoWriMo at last! Well, okay, so I never went farther than the Albuquerque Museum Cafe ...

  Here we are: halfway through National Novel Writing Month, the greatest novel writing challenge on earth; 50,000 words in thirty days. If ...

© Creative Commons Zero / Dreamstime.com Ready for a month of inky fun? Me too! Now that October is here, so is Inktober , a 31-day d...

Image © Commonsstockphotos Nope, didn't win . And I'm just fine with that, especially as my true goal this year was to write ....

Photo by ©creativecommonsstockphotos We did it! S old our house, finished renovat ing (most of) the condo, moved into said condo, and...

Short stories or novels?   Which are best to write? Which are best and/or easiest for beginning writers?  I've thought about these q...

Some of the beads I've gathered abroad, or just from a trip to the craft store. How to Solve any Problem with Beads . Really?  W...