Storymakers workshop Tension for Proper Ladies

May 16, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A Torn Allegiance: First Chapter teaser

January 24, 2021.Reading time 29 minutes.

Grosvenor Square, London, 1814 Lady Elsie Morrow, daughter of the Duke of Shelby and twin sister of Duncan, Baron of Argyll in Scotland, wished she stood on a craggy rock, the wind whipping all of the pins out of her hair. She could almost see the hills rolling in every direction, a low stone wall […]

She will be Heard

July 31, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

While researching for A Lady’s Maid, I found myself on numerous occasions, standing up and pacing. “How?” “Why?” Even the teenage, “I can’t even…” all rushed through my mind. Then I would rush back to the screen, trying to puzzle through how a human could come to another and say, “We want our voice to […]

Women’s Suffrage and Regency?

June 5, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Yes. Women were there, asking for the right to vote while Darcy found Elizabeth not tolerable enough. Women were there when Heathcliff was making us all depressed. Women were marching for suffrage during the Dashwoods’ many plights. Women were there during Roman times. Women ruled during the time of the Egyptians. And yet, they weren’t […]

Being Real

April 14, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

This morning, I feel like being real. I mean, I’m always REAL. But I mean, the dirty bathroom kind of real, the shut your bedroom door so no one sees the mess kind of real. Some of the real grittiness of life people don’t want to see, if we are being honest. They have their […]