We know at the beginning there is a family tragedy . In Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng spends the rest of the novel introducing us...

According to Brene Brown, PhD, author and professor at University of Houston School of Social Work, "The ability to think past either/or...

It could have been a coincidence or maybe fate, but it certainly was serendipitous that Birdie Barnes found Judith Reynolds on the beach...

It's Mardi Gras in Galveston and other places, but Galveston is where I live. It's common to go to a restaurant or the grocery store and...

I just watched Spotlight on Netflix, the 2015 movie about the Boston Globe investigation of the Boston Archdiocese and the sex scandal...

There are so many things swirling in the cosmos to wrap our heads around. The spinners attempt to spin and bend our opinions about these...

Before I hit publish, I read a completed and edited manuscript several times, probably many more than ten, but sometimes the readings are...

Here we are, in that second Ember Month, you know, Octember. It’s my favorite. It’s the weather, the colors, pumpkins, the smells, the...

Are you tired of hearing about hurricanes? I live on an island. Hurricane Ike hit here in 2008 and locals are still talking about it,...

Summer is almost gone. It’s true. There are already aisles of Christmas decorations in one of my favorite haunts. It doesn’t seem...

This is not the face of my dog, Ollie Bubba, but he looks exactly like this. Well, he's older now, not as youthful looking, but who is? I...

On April 1 it will be one year since I published Retirement, Now What?, a little book about emotionally embracing retirement. At the...

“There is a phenomena that occurs when the truth is kept buried. It shows itself in pieces, a few clawing attempts to surface. When there...

I know it's the first of November, but stay with me here. I'm doing research for a book. It's set on the Lamar peninsula at a house that...

"A little bit of mystery and a little bit of magic, similar to the writing of Sarah Addison Allen. Personal redemption is a favorite...

I used to know a lady named Bessie in the late seventies. She was in her sixties then, so I’m certain she has moved on to better places....

Just Mercy, A Story of Justice and Redemption By Bryan Stevenson, Nonfiction Publisher, Spiegel & Grau a division of Random House...

I didn't realize this book was being made into a movie when I read it. I'm glad I didn't because I always visualize the actors instead of...

I listened to Maya Angelou on a talk show say she did not tolerate negative comments or ethnic jokes in her home. She believed the...

The Nest, by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney I might not have read this book if it had not been on a Kindle that my husband and I share. He said...