Have I mentioned I hate the dentist? About a week prior to leaving for LA, I had a crown come off of a molar and part of the remaining tooth beneath broke off as well. My dentist stated I had a...

The hardest funerals to attend are the ones for people who are still living.  I found myself studying all of the empty graves lined up inside of my heart—graves that had no bodies to fill them, only...

Happy Mother’s Day in heaven to my Mom and my Grandma, who we lovingly called Nonnie—the women who raised me. Upon their arrival, I’m sure heaven had a little more laughter, and the earth,...

"**Trigger Warning** I wish I could say you were the only one, but monsters have cohorts. Monsters also have a powerful ability to create mutant deviations of themselves—so the malignity multiplies....

The Queen has returned from a long sabbatical. Do I have a story?  Indeed, I do. Don’t we all? After being in treatment for 3 years for the ongoing sexual abuse I suffered as a child and the...

It’s hard to get over a fear of the dark, when your monsters were real.  I’m a survivor. I was raped repeatedly for several years of my childhood. I speak of that trauma in my memoir, You Have Such...