Why Farm Wives Prefer Romance Novels (a theory)
Right off the bat, I need to let you know that I haven’t conducted a Gallup Poll about who does and doesn’t read romance novels. I’m not basing my opinion on any audience measurement, or public-opinion...
View ArticleFryBread – a Bite Out of History
Take a little nibble of frybread and close your eyes. Hear the ancient winds moaning through the canyons? Feel the sunlight on your bare skin? Smell the cedar and sage perfuming the air? Can you taste...
View ArticleCacti, the Rock Star of the Desert
The truth is, cacti can be the best of times and the worst of times. It can represent the age of wisdom or the age of foolishness. *forgive me Charles Dickens* The Best of Times/Age of Wisdom Cacti as...
View ArticleDon’t Just Sit There . . . WRITE!
Don’t Just Sit There . . . WRITE! My personal advice to budding writers is not simply . . . WRITE! but dang near it. Like all writers and novelists, I followed a myriad of roads to be where I am today....
View ArticleIf an Ellipsis Ran for President . . .
Vote for Me! If ever an Ellipsis were to run for President, what would be the platform? No more dot-to-space-ratio lawlessness, of course! Yet, enforcing the Ellipses Laws may be trickier than a...
View ArticleDon’t Be a Writer-Rebel Without a Cause
These days, it’s popular to think of oneself as a “Rule Breaker” … a “Rebel;” and, to some extent, that’s fun and exciting. Truthfully, where can we as writers hedge and when must the rules be...
View ArticleCan Ants be Trusted with the Crown Jewels? by Jodi Lea Stewart
If you grew up without television, you’d probably think watching chubby red ants bringing treasures home to their anthills was loads of fun too. Luckily, we had tons of anthills to scope out on our...
View ArticlePainting Museum-Quality Art with Words by Jodi Lea Stewart
Painting Museum-Quality Art with Words Why is the journey through a historical novel so different from regular reading? Because for that brief time, YOU ARE THERE! In the 1950s and 1960s, CBS...
View ArticleAnts Harvest Jewels, Inspire, and Cause Literary Havoc
ANTS! Love ’em or hate ’em, they are a fact of life. Sometimes, they are hailed as heroes; sometimes, they are kind of evil. Ants gather ancient relics and jewels from the earth Listen, if you grew up...
View ArticleThe Spirit of FREEDOM Still Haunts Route 66
How did one road come to signify so many things to people, past and present? Personally, I think it’s all about FREEDOM. Our nation was founded by people on a fierce quest for FREEDOM. Immigrants by...
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