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September 15, 2026

THE BIG WAIT…Writing in the Time of Submission Noir

August 19, 2025

Votes Are Finally Tallied: New Author Photo Has Been Chosen

February 20, 2025

New Book, New Look: Vote for Best Author Photo

October 29, 2024

There Are Two Sides to the Story of Women During the Vietnam War. Now You Can Read Them Both.

April 25, 2024
The sunsets in San Miguel are breathtaking. As Rachel says in the book, “La Querencia is the perfect time before the end of life. A sunset is the most beautiful, last hurrah of the day.”

Trumpet Blast: The New Title for My Second Novel Revealed. Thank You, my Collaborators

November 4, 2022

My New Novel—aka La Querencia—Now Has 306 Potential Titles. THANK YOU ALL!

September 14, 2022
La Querencia

Urgent: I Have to Break Up with My New Novel’s Perfect Title, and I Need a Little Help from My Friends.

August 10, 2022

The Reluctant Matador: Meet my Bullfighting Consultant.

February 2, 2022

I’m Putting a New Act Together and Taking it on the Virtual Road… to Mexico.

September 17, 2021

PLAGUE ENDS: Sleeping Beauty Awakes, but With More Heft and No Prince. RE-ENTRY Can Be a Slippery Slope for the Pandemic Underachiever. Are You Ready?

May 26, 2021

Pandemic Phase III: Extrovert in Captivity. Murder on my Mind. And STOP Asking if the Second Novel is Done, or I Will Bite YOU.

January 12, 2021

Celebrating the Second Anniversary of a Book That “Becomes More Relevant by the Hour”

September 14, 2020

Confessions of a Sequester Wastrel: Yes, My Second Novel Should Be Done, But It Isn’t. Bite Me

July 14, 2020

The Final 50th Anniversary Post: Remembering the Kent State Shootings of May 4, 1970

May 4, 2020

A Tale of Watergate: Straight From the Source and Still Spellbinding

April 3, 2020

The 50th Anniversary of December 1, 1969, A Painful Moment of History in Danger of Repeating Itself.

December 1, 2019

On this Day in History: November 15, 1969. The Moratorium March on Washington. A Million Reasons to End the War. . . Or So We Thought. 

November 15, 2019

October 15, 1969: The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. A Pause for Reflection in a Polarized America.

October 15, 2019

The First Anniversary of “The Fourteenth of September:” The 50th Anniversary of Everything That’s In It 🎂

September 24, 2019

Torn Between Two Lovers: A Tragicomic Tale of Second-Novel Rivalry 💔

June 26, 2019

Coming of Conscience Scholarship Recipient Announced

May 14, 2019

Women’s History Month: A Matter of Standing

March 12, 2019

December 1, 1969: A Date Which Will Live in Irony

November 30, 2018

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