When someone dies, there’s always a sense (or pressure from the public,) that you’re supposed to feel bad about the loss. But why? In the...

It’s a challenging question. Every novel writer wants to have their manuscript completed and ready for querying. The correct answer is:...

There are so many different ways people encourage kindness. It seems to be that it's understood that kindness is important, but there...

We all do it. (If we're good parents). We want to do anything and everything to help our children. There are times I'm glad I'm not a...

There are large numbers of people in this country who want to ban books. They decide which books to target based on content they don't...

I came out as nonbinary almost 2 years ago. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I told my kids first. They were both...

Who wants to spend life holding a phone in front of their face? I feel like I'm missing out when I worry about taking the right picture...

While I do have absolutely serious problems with what came to light with the people running NaNoWriMo this year, that is not what this...

I read something recently, about an elderly man who was asked how old he felt. His answer basically said he still felt the boy he was...

I came out as nonbinary late in life. As a person who was AFAB in 1972 and grew up in the 70s and 80s in the Midwest, there wasn't an...

So many things remind me of her-the dog of my heart, my best friend. My Maia. Today, March 5th, would have been her 13th birthday....

Dinosaurs were the primary form of life on Earth for billions of years. Other mammalian life forms existed for millennia after the...

I am so over seeing TikTok videos and social media posts hyping GenX as the generation "not to be messed with" because they've had to go...

Yes, American Idol. I'm a junkie for that show and always have been. I admit it openly. The first episode, a young man, ex-football...

There is a current trend on social media to encourage others to "never give up" or believe they "can do anything they put their mind to"....

Only time will tell. The first time I went through this, it was with a book that wasn't ready, a predatory publisher at a time when I...

Please, please, for all of Pete's sake, stop saying how lucky or fortunate transgender or even kids that come out as gay are who have...

When I was about ten years old, I lived in the same small town in the heart of Wisconsin as a woman who was quite elderly. I can't...

What if we understood just how limited our time here on Earth really was? Even if we the longest possible life, the best we can.hope for...

There (they're, their?) are so many ways people make mistakes when it comes to spelling. And there are also plenty of people who are...