O most honored Greening Force, You who roots in the Sun; You who lights up, in shining serenity, within a wheel that earthly excellence fails to comprehend. You are enfolded in the weaving of divine mysteries. You redden like the dawn and you burn: flame of the Sun.”
– Hildegard von Bingen, Causae et Curae
Originally published in Still Point Arts Quarterly.…
I found joy at Christmas after being the first to survive a rare form of lymphoma. And that joy has never left me.
My recipe for making spicy cardamom cookies.
Halloween 2022 has many delights. It's a combination of the scary, the fall, the pagan closing of the year and relief from the summer heat--and this summer burned brutal in Lancaster, PA. This year, we expected summer to hold on far into October as it had the previous few years, but we were pleasantly surprised…
It ain't nuclear weapons that ends the world. No zombies. True love kills humanity.
A few years ago, Blood Bound Books took a chance on me and published my horror hospital thriller, MERCY. Mercy is a catharsis about my experience fighting cancer turned into a metaphysical horror story. It's something I'm still processing and…
We baked a strawberry ‘shortcake’ chiffon cake to celebrate strawberry season here in Lancaster PA. Here’s the recipe.
Still Point Arts Quarterly has published my essay, Healing from Cancer in the Gardens at Pennsbury Manor, and I’d like to share with you the story behind its creation.
Non-fiction writing has three major points that the author much consider: audience, concision and insights.
believe are true. They give us a hint into the greatest mystery of humankind: what comes after? Ghost stories reassure us and offer an insight into our own futures. They promise immortality.
Long before The Street Martyr, I was a new author looking to make a name for myself and to build a body of work. I wrote a lot of flash fiction, short stories with a quick kick and bite. Off the cuff, I wrote a flash piece about an extreme misfit called Louie who packed…