Since I've started working at my great outdoor museum, I tend to spend a lot of time outside.  So much of my job revolves around what...

Every so often, everyone needs a good cry. Not necessarily because of any one thing, although those are good, too, but every once in a while...

Those of you who know me know that every so often, I enjoy making mountains out of mole-hills, particularly when it comes to my writing. I’...

Two things happened to me today --  I had my mid-year review, and I saw someone I knew at the grocery store. Now, you're probably wond...

Is there chocolate in middle earth? So, one of the folks I follow on tumblr asked this question this morning, and like the inquisitive...

A room with a view or a room of one's own, it's all the same to me... Yesterday at lunchtime I sat, by myself, in the heat of ...

Friends! How go things with you? Life has, of late, not left a whole lot of brain power for writing, so posts have been necessarily spo...

I’m now on week four of my new job, and things are going splendidly  (For those of you who don’t know, four weeks ago I transitioned to ...

3 a.m. rainstorms, we have to stop meeting like this. The first time, when you woke me up with lightning in your dancing eyes, I tho...

It’s strange that after three weeks of answering 8 o’clock phone calls thinking This will be it and the one that is it is prece...

When you ask me today, Friend, what are you doing? I will tell you, I am building the inner room. I am letting the inner room...

One of my online acquaintances posted a new chapter for her story today. I haven't read it yet, but the rest of her work is amazing, a...

Since seeing The Hobbit a few days ago with my sister, I’ve had dwarves on the brain. Yeah, I know, you’re all rolling your eyes and...

Prayer from Someone Failing at her Job Search. Aloud I cry to you, Lord God of the Universe, Loud I cry, and listen for your voice. ...

Over the past year, I've been fortunate enough to have not one, but two jobs doing what I love -- working in and around museums. And...

One would think that graduating from college would give a person more time to do things like update their blog, but it has become apparent t...