Thrilled to announce my new book A Murder on Jane Street Here’s a little intel on the road that led me to Jane Street! The grandpa I idolized in childhood was a detective lieutenant so maybe detecting is in my blood… any astrologer worth her salt would tell you my loaded 12th House makes me [ Read More ]
My dear friend Reverend Marian Starnes was a spiritual powerhouse. A compassionate healer, a gifted medium, a loving friend to any in need. She founded The Brigade of Light and on the advice of an Angel named Gary (I’m not making this up) bought a property of 250 acres of pristine beauty on a [ Read More ]
I Meet a Bona Fide Saint in New Jersey Just after I finished writing Bless the Child and sent off my manuscript to the publisher, an acquaintance whom I didn’t know well, told me a world famous Jain Monk, revered by millions as a Saint, was coming to an Ashram in New Jersey. She said [ Read More ]
” The history of a nation is not in parliaments and battlefields, but in what people say to each other on fair days and high days, and in how they farm and quarrel and go on pilgrimage…” – William Butler Yeats Sisters. Love. Ireland I began to write An Excess of Love [ Read More ]
The Herstory of the Old West The most disturbing knowledge that came out of my research for Paint the Wind was that most of the women who went West didn’t want to go! Their diaries are so different from the men’s, so poignant and grief stricken… and so damned brave. They didn’t want to leave [ Read More ]
How to Run a Disorderly House in 1890 Early New York was littered with prostitution in the late 1800’s. On the streets and in the Bawdy or Disorderly Houses as the cops designated them, prostitution was a booming business. The brothel business abounded not merely because of lust and lawlessness, but because it was [ Read More ]
History and Mystery… I was divorced when I was 23 and my children were babies , one 12 months old and her sister 12 days old. (They’re nearly 2 and 3 in the photo above!) I was trained only as a portrait painter, had no alimony or child support to see me through, and [ Read More ]
Following the Light While I was writing and researching PAINT THE WIND, my Western epic, I was also seriously involved in both Martial Arts and alternative healing, studying with Dr. John Upledger, a Chinese doctor, several hands-on healers, and – maybe most importantly of all – a visionary Native American Medicine Man, Joseph Rael, aka [ Read More ]
What Do the Planets Mean to You? The planets effect your personal life in so many ways. To help you better understand your astrological chart, here are some crib notes: When an astrologer talks to you about the planets in your chart , he or she is referring to the eight [ Read More ]
Researching BLESS THE CHILD was a wild ride – it entailed far more than I’d bargained for. I’d like to tell you about it! How Bless the Child Got Written Who knows where stories come from? Bits and pieces of information lodge in a writer’s brain and sometimes they coalesce into [ Read More ]