Did you know that the Romans named the month of May after Maia, an earth goddess of growing plants? I have a great garden this year and...

One thing I realized when I started writing mysteries is that mistakes come with the territory. As much as I want to get a squeaky clean,...

For those who like to read…or write…for that matter, here is a simple way to support books and those that write them. (This showed up on...

The Tucson Festival of Books (TFOB) was a well-organized flurry of authors, books, readings, as well as food and music. Phew…almost too...

I am so excited. I am on my way to Tucson to attend the Tucson Festival of Books, March 10-11 (and visit my sister.) If you don’t know...

I don’t know what the cold and flu season has been like in your part of the country, but here in northern California, it has been awful....

I have a dwarf Meyer Lemon tree that usually produces a huge crop of lemon in early December. In case you didn’t know, the Meyer Lemon...

My answer? I have, I want and I know I need a social platform. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, Goggle+, and...

You have heard it all before. Writing is a lonely profession. By its very nature, it is a solitary craft. So,if you weren’t an introvert...

This week I started the third book in my Trisha Carson mystery series. I promised myself I would start in January and I have. Each time I...

I have a few author readings coming up for Drop Dead Red, my new mystery. For me, they are more than a little nerve racking but also...

If you enjoy mysteries, I am sure you heard by now that Sue Grafton, the author of the alphabet mysteries has died of cancer. She was 77....

(More than 20 years ago, I was the boating columnist for the Marin Independent Journal. I had that job for 19 years and used to race...

(As you might imagine, this is not my recipe. It comes from Two Healthy Kitchens) The holiday season often means parties, dinners,...

Finding a parking place south of Market Street, San Francisco is never easy. But luck was with me the other day when I slid into a spot...

For some people, the 32 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas are either the happiest time of the year or like entering into Dante’s...

(First off, this is a Martha Stewart recipe…not mine.) Thanksgiving used to be my favorite holiday, but when I began cooking for 13+...

I have binge watched TV shows before. It took me a few months to get through seven seasons of Game of Thrones and less than a week to...