Harriet Tubman Should Be on the Twenty Dollar Bill
If you haven’t seen HARRIET, the new motion picture about Harriet Tubman, you should get out and see it right away. Everyone in the United States of America should see it. Harriet Tubman was a true patriot and a courageous character. If she had been a man and white, she would still, to this…
Chest Surgery Update
YAY! My chest surgery will happen in Seattle. My doctor found a surgeon at one of the Northwest Hospital and Medical Center locations willing to perform it (radical double mastectomy). Because I’m scheduled to have book tables at three holiday bazaars in November and December, I probably won’t have the surgery until early in…
Hiccup in my Forward Progress toward Surgery
There’s been a hiccup in my forward progress toward surgery to have my breasts removed: The surgical “centre” (they spell it that way to look upscale, although that’s the British way to spell it) here in Tacoma–the one my doctor referred me to–doesn’t perform double mastectomies for gender dysphoria! GRRRR and DAGNAB IT!!!…
Two Unpublished Manuscripts Sit In My Computer
Two incomplete manuscripts sit in my PC. I started one last year and the other this year. They’re called Pushing Past Fear and Heartsongs from a Lifetime of Journal-Keeping. I just re-read them. They’re good. But the journal one is so daunting that I put it away for a while. It…
MILESTONE REACHED
Goodness Gracious Sakes Alive! I just counted up the number of books I’ve written and published: 15!!! (not counting the first edition of DeForest Kelley: A Harvest of Memories, the first iteration of DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal). 15 titles is a MAJOR MILESTONE in a writer’s life! Plus thousands (and…
Kelley Phone Tag Volumes 1-6 Are COMPLETE!
Taaa daaa!!! All six volumes of Kelley Phone Tag: The Rest of the Story are underway at Amazon and will be available in the next couple days. The Kindle versions are available right now. We got them all out in plenty of time for the 100th anniversary of DeForest Kelley’s birth which is coming up…
Channeling Edgar Allan Poe at The Lakewood Playhouse
Hazel Bell, Chris Bailey, Lisa Twining Taylor and I went to watch Pacific NW actor Tim Hoban channel Edgar Allen Poe at the Lakewood Playhouse last night. What a show! Mr. Hoban will perform it one more time (tonight, Saturday, October 19th at 7:30 pm) so if you’re local to Tacoma and see…
Michelle Obama Nails It: Women Suffer Needlessly from Impostor Syndrome
“I have been at probably every powerful table that you can think of. I have worked at nonprofits, I have been at foundations, I have worked in corporations, served on corporate boards, I have been at G-summits, I have sat in at the U.N.: (The people who preside) are not that smart.” Michelle Obama …
Magnificent Obsessions ARE Achievable
I’ve embraced three magnificent obsessions during my life: to become a professional writer, to get to know DeForest and Carolyn Kelley up close and personal, and to have lots of hands-on experiences with animals of as many different species as possible. Those were my top three magnificent obsessions. There have been others: To work…
Why The Far Right Cracks Me Up
Why The Far Right Cracks Me Up “If the progressives win with their ‘everybody’s equal and should get the same chance in life to succeed’ malarkey, I’m moving to Australia.” “If Trump is impeached, I’m moving to Canada.” “If Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren win the Presidency, I’m moving to _______ (fill…