Photo by   Anthony Fomin  on   Unsplash I almost titled this blog post, “The Death of Celebrity,” but that wasn’t quite right. There are...

Photo by Vidal Balielo Jr. on  Pexels I only recently became a Swiftie. My journey  began after my daughter and husband came back from an...

Photo by Zac Frith on Pexels   As I get older, I have been falling into one cliché after another. Downloaded the Merlin Bird ID  app so...

Photo by Mo Eid on Pexels I’ve been having a spate of mornings recently where I wake up and remember distressing dreams. In the past, I...

Image source: Blizzard When you hear about the game World of Warcraft, what images come to mind? Maybe you think of the bespectacled slob...

Photo by Brady Knoll on Pexels It’s now been about a month since I started outlining my second novel. I have documented premise...

Photo by Mikael Blomkvist on Pexels I know that there is some marketing guru out there ready to tell me the optimum number of Medium...

Photo by Alina Vilchenko on Pexels I’ve been listening to Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming. As she recounts her childhood memories, I...

Photo source: Merlina McGovern It’s almost too hot to type this blog post up in my stifling upstairs office. It’s 86 degrees (F) where I...

Photo by Eugene Liashchevskyi on Pexels It’s been half a year, but my sleep hygiene investment is still paying dividends. I have been...

Photo by Brett Sayles on Pexels The world has become so polarized. It feels like every national election has become a life-or-death...

Photo by George Milton on Pexels I always find it hard to put things down, even when I find them boring or not my cup of tea. In fact, as...

Photo by RF._.studio on Pexels I was just reading through the first fifty pages of my very first novel before sending out yet another...

Photo by Vie Studio on Pexels Tonight, I’ll be going out with some friends for dinner. I know that I’ll have a great time and have that...

Photo by Ksenia Chernaya on Pexels I’m typing this blog post while wearing my brand-new eyeglasses. I’m really enjoying them, and I’m...

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels I really wasn’t planning on seeing a wedding season at this point in my life. I’m nearly fifty, and I...

Photo: Merlina McGovern I’ve never been one to post selfies. Selfies were more in the domain of Millennials, so comfortable on Twitter...

Photo by Matt Hardy I’ve let out the biggest sigh in my life. One that I’m sure can be heard all the way on the West Coast (if people...

Image source: Photo by Moritz Böing on Pexels This past Friday I went for my twice weekly jog. As I’ve mentioned, I’m on a 5k running...

Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash Just as I was about to start this blog post, a large pop up obscured my writing on this Google doc....