I spent the first eight years of my life on Bainbridge Island, across from Seattle. In those days, the island was a friendly and familiar...

​​ Books! What would we do without them? I literally go crazy if I don't have a current book, ready to snatch up at a moment's notice. In...

Okay. Face it. I am far from being an expert on this business we call writing. But, on the other hand, I have been an avid, prodigious,...