The Bookshelf

It's been a long time since I used this blog to simply update my readers on my life, so I thought I would take some time today to do...

A look at the Cosmosphere, a space-age museum full of fascinating stellar history in Hutchinson, KS, from the perspective of a scifi writer.

My thoughts on returning to community theater after three years offstage.

A brief update regarding certain social media.

Musings on returning to the challenge and a preview of the story I'll be working on, a dark fantasy epic.

Being someone who uses research as a part of her daily life and work, it was inevitable that I was going to get curious about the history...

This past Thursday, I had the pleasure of seeing Rex Buchanan speak about his book, Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills. Buchanan, a...

An ode to a good cat.

When I was in high school, my drama department participated in yearly one-act show competitions. The concept was simple; take a show and...

Accessible ways to get into acting as a beginner.

A reflection on the oncoming changes that moving across the country brings.

Finding purpose in the aftermath. A discussion of environmental storytelling in Breath of the Wild.

It's not really something you think about when you're a little kid. I think I only really started thinking about it in school. I went to...

I arrived at my mental archive, ready to pull down the projects of the day, and found the doors barred. No Entry - Renovations in Progress.

A step-by-step guide to the most nerve-wracking part of acting.

It’s hard to believe it’s really been a year since I started writing as a job. I’ve been telling stories forever, and when I published my...

My mother has a lovely chess set that she kept beneath her bed when I was a little girl. Both sides are carved from pretty green and red...

In a time during which nothing else is certain, you would think that the marked passing of time in the form of annual holidays would...

The year is finally, finally drawing to a close. It has felt for me, as I'm sure it's felt for many people, as if it would never end and...

I participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time. Here's how it went.