A Truly Dangerous Thing

I'm a writer by avocation. It's not how I earn a living, but serves as a way to maintain my sanity most of the time. I enjoy writing and always have. Ask anyone who knows me or corresponds with me and they will likely tell you that I write sometimes extremely rambling emails and almost always have something to say. I have strong opinions and usually manage tick people off with them, but at this point in my life I'm too old to care what other people think. I'm way past to point of attempting to impress anyone. With age I have found a kind of liberation I wish I had known as a young woman and intend to enjoy it as much as possible. I prefer to think I am not in my waning years, but in the prime of my life when it belongs pretty much to me alone. This should give you an indication of the type of rambling I often do.

It can be a dangerous thing to allow someone a venue such as this to expound their thoughts. I'll try not to get carried away and cannot promise that this will be a daily trek, but I will attempt to post something on a regular basis. Not that I think a herd of folks will read anything I am writing here, but just as a way to dump the crap from my mind.

I am the author of three novels, Pipeline, Reiko's Garden, and Redress of Grievances. I'm proud to say I will have two new novels released in 2009; The Sea Hawk in January and Tunnel Vision in July. My partner and I are the more or less proud parents of four grown children, all married now and someone else's problem. Our only responsibilities now are the two dogs and three cats that generally believe we could not sleep a single night without the company of all of them in our bed. We live in Texas, although neither of us is from ehre originally, where it is just God-awful hot in the summer and we endure two weeks of winter every year whether we want to or not.

I have a number of writer friends and because they never cease to amaze me with the stories and characters they create, I will undoubtedly be mentioning them from time to time. After all, I've been told it never hurts to advertise. Of course, that probably depends on whether what you are advertising is legal or not.

This has been rather fun for a first try, but it's been a long day and I do have to get up for work in the morning.