October is Facial Pain Awareness Month, sharing the time with Breast Cancer Awareness. While facial pain doesn’t carry the dire outcomes of some breast cancer diagnoses, it it most debilitating and often lasts years. For eight years now, atypical trigeminal neuralgia, TN-2, has been a daily problem for me, and my recent spine surgery exacerbated …
This will be my last post for a couple of weeks – or maybe longer. Timing will depend on how quickly I recover from surgery on my cervical spine. There are several serious issues that need repair, and they’ll be taken care of on Monday. When thinking about what topics to have on my blog …
RIP THE SKY byMark PackardSpeculative Fiction / Fantasy / Science FictionPublisher: Bluestreak PublishingPage Count: 317 pagesPublication Date: August 21, 2023 Scroll down for a giveaway! After a shocking courtroom tragedy, a disturbed Vietnam veteran and the vindictive judge who sent him to prison become an unlikely pair of time travelers in a chaotic multiverse. The …
Since I’m trying to get pages added to the book I’m writing, I’m going to let Slim Randles have this space for today. My muse has been kind to me of late, so I’m chugging along on One More Time, book three in the series that started with One Small Victory. I’m a third of …
Like many other people, I can clearly remember that day eighteen years ago when my daughter called me from Texas to tell me to turn on the television news. I was up and getting ready for work, but my husband was still asleep – an ironic turn around from the years he was up early …
Tested By Fireby C.J. Peterson Christian Fiction / Suspense / RomancePublisher: Texas Sisters Press, LLCPage Count: 278 pagesPublication Date: August 21, 2023 Scroll down for Giveaway! Meet Robin Flynn: a woman of artistic soul and iron will, who forges metal and paints vibrant canvases as an escape from life’s ceaseless challenges. Raised in the gritty …
Ten years. Already? When you lose someone who was part of your life longer than the time prior to the pairing, the adjustment to “oneness” is hard. Really hard. The photo was taken at a coffee shop in Winnsboro, Texas on one of our wedding anniversaries. This was not long after we’d moved there in …
Labor Day weekend is always the start of a melancholy time of the year for me. It used to be more exciting and exhilarating as I always looked forward to a break from the summer’s heat and the glorious colors of Autumn touching the trees with spatters of yellow, red, and orange. This weekend was …
First off a few words about the shooting in Jacksonville FL over the weekend that took the lives of three Black people. A White supremacist carried weapons into a Dollar General and shot the people for no other reason than the color of their skin. The shooter, who I will not name so I don’t …
First off, I want to mention that August 24th is the last day to get Evelyn Evolving for only .99 at most digital outlets. If you haven’t yet read this story of my mother’s challenging life, here’s a chance to Get Evelyn Evolving at a deep discount. ABOUT THE BOOK: Four-year-old Evelyn Gundrum’s secure and …