You all have strict orders from me to drive safely, eat lots of watermelon and hot dogs, and get yourselves ready to read a good book!It's a fine and natural thing to remember those who have gone before. I'm thinking today of my Grandma Wiley. She wasn't a blood...

...in a time bearing a strange and sweet resemblance to NOW, there was a rose, slumbering in the shadow of a wall, dreaming. Sometimes, those dreams were scary, but they were always marked by a mysterious yearning. The rose, you see, did not know it was a rose. It...

I'm feeling impassioned this morning.I write about love. I write about romance. I write about strong people prevailing over circumstance. And I'm PROUD of it!In this day and age, though romance novels represent almost half of all fiction sold, volume for volume, there...

One week ago today, we had our own rodeo, right here at Springwater Station. Nobody planned it except the horses, and no tickets were sold. We humans didn't get a choice about participating, either.Here's what happened.I had been at the last class of my Citizen's...

I'm back! I actually managed to overcome my techno-phobia and get into this thing again.So what have I been up to?Well, right now, the focus of my attention is the release of McKettrick's Choice, by big western, starring Holt McKettrick, of "High Country Bride",...

Best Western Hotels has decided to outsource almost 500 jobs to India. Personally, I think that sucks, and unless they change their policy, I'll stay elsewhere. Go to their website and let them know what you think.

THANK YOU. Meanwhile, I'm getting gray hairs from Clare's current adventures!

This week I will be flying to LA to film a segment of a new reality show, airing next spring, called "Mr. Romance". Life is full of surprises! It's raining again. I'm trying to look at it as the end of a drought. I like sunshine better. So sue me. (That last line came...

Hectic, hectic, hectic! I love every minute of it. Pay no attention to Clare. She's a scrooge.

It's back. Cool and sunny in Arizona. It doesn't get any better!

It must be getting close to Christmas. The Clapper ads are back on TV.

While I wasn't looking, some cosmic trickster teleported me back to Seattle. It's raining like crazy. I have a cozy fire going, and I'm trying to look at the weather as a blessing. The desert is so thirsty.