Author Thoughts

January 2026 Photo by  Tim Mossholder  on  Unsplash Resolutions! Have you made your resolutions yet? This year will be full of excitement and wonder. Sometimes, I wonder what will be next in my author career. I know that the resolutions we set sometimes do not come to fruition. We often say we ought to… and we will… statements but the future is something that we can not predict.   However, it is good to have goals with the expectation that you may or may not complete them, bu

This month has been so much fun minus some health issues. I was supposed to go to an event but that did not happen. It is important that health comes first.   So, this month, I focused on looking over the draft illustrations for an upcoming book about bullying. Book 13 is in motion with the illustrator providing the draft for myself and another author to look over. We are both in the process of checking over the illustrations.   In addition, I have been busy with at the begin

November 2025 I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Today, I want to share about “thankfulness”.   T- Thankful - I am thankful to God and my family for allowing me to share my stories to so many children. H- Happy – I am happy that I have been able to write so many books, make a difference in the lives of children, and to have provided books to increase “literacy, learning, and legacy.” A-Amazed - I am always amazed at so many different authors I have met. It             

October 2025 "From One To Many" This weekend was the Oklahoma Highland Gathering in Choctaw, Oklahoma. At this event, there were over 20 Scottish Clans as well as Viking Re-enactors, children’s games, men and women’s athletic competitions, birds of prey demonstration, sheep sheering competition, and lots of vendors. In addition, there were bagpipe players and drummers. If you were hungry, there were food trucks. If you wanted to buy all kinds of stuff including medieval stuff

September 2025 This month has been winding down with book events. I chose to not do events in August because it was so hot. The last...

August 2025 I just had the opportunity to see my new site on Wix after having been moved from Weebly. Since I have a gap in my blog, here...

July 2024 It is a great day to be a children's book author. My goal in being a children's book author is to make a difference in the...

September 2024 It was a busy day, Friday, Sept. 6th, 2024, as I was nervously awaiting my turn to read two upcoming unpublished...

September 2024 I have been called a “social butterfly.”  This is true since I enjoy talking to people. As a child, dad would always give...

October 2024 ​This week I attended the craft fair in Wellston, Oklahoma held at the Assembly of God Church. The day started out good...

October 2024 ​It seems so long ago that my first book, “Did You Come Home for Lunch?” came out in print in 2021 but was in work in 2020...

November 2024 I had the great opportunity to volunteer my time to babysit my grandchild who has a tremendous amount of energy. I need to...

December 2024 There were lots of things to celebrate this couple of weeks with one week being my birthday week and the next week was the...

January 2025 ​I am so happy to be blessed in this author’s journey. Recently, I was asked to read Storytime and book signing at Knights...

February 2025 The best medicine for stressful days is in fact laughing at yourself, laughing at a show you watched on television, or even...

February 2025 This is just me speaking at the Oklahoma City christian Writers Meeting on Saturday, February 8, 2025 This was the title of...

February 2025 As I was thinking about some of the precious moments in the past, I came to think about all the children that I have worked...

March 2025 I have been contemplating the issue of literacy rates in elementary schools. There is concern that there are students who are...

April 2025 I promise that this is not an April Fool’s joke. So, I have not been blogging lately due to sickness most of February and...

April 2025 This month is called, “Month of the Military Child .” Why is it called this? It is a celebration that was established in 1986...