Charlie was like, “Why did you do this?” And I was like, “I just wanted to.” And he was like, “Okay.” The secret to a happy marriage: Know when to say, “Okay.” I was staying with Mom while she recovered from pneumonia and from the…

THEME REVEAL I’m doing the A-to-Z April Blogging Challenge again this year. Sometimes I do a theme, and sometimes a theme just grows as I goes. We were supposed to do our theme reveal yesterday, but I was waffling and it was Writerly Day, and…

I’ve said that you don’t want to overwhelm your reader with extraneous detail jumbled all over the foreground of your book. I’ve said that detail woven unobtrusively into the background can enrich the reader’s experience. Now Imma tell you about unimportant details that aren’t –…