I’ve always prided myself on being a safe driver. The only time I’d gotten into a car accident was when I had my learner’s permit. I backed Nana’s Grand Marquee into something in her garage and busted out one of the taillights. With some elbow grease and a few hours on a Saturday afternoon, it was as good as new. No one was more surprised than I when my 2002 Honda Civic, Florence, was sideswiped by an 18-wheeler on US-29 South in Danville, barely an hour into a five-hour road

Last weekend, I had the pleasure of presenting on email marketing for authors at the Virginia Writers Club (VWC) Annual Symposium. Over...

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My therapist and I talk a lot about values, and there's a very important reason for this. It's not because I don't understand what they...

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To put it mildly, it has been an emotional week in the United States. Former President Donald J. Trump won the presidential election...

My husband and I have a little inside joke—at least, I think that’s the category it would fall into.  Whenever we have experiences that...

It has rained almost every day for the past two weeks.  The pasture across the street from my house has been shrouded in a thick layer of...

When I got a new refrigerator, I vowed it would not become a pinboard for coupons, appointment reminders, invitations, and cards. But...

My childhood home was a big, yellow farmhouse with a picket fence. I slept in a blush-pink room with a dormer that overlooked the front...

The basketball pounds like a drum outside my office window. It’s 3:30 p.m., and the neighbor kids are home from school, playing a game of...

We thought we were lost. We’d been driving for two hours already, and the maps app told me to turn down a dirt road that looked like a...