A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be a peace on earth for one entire day.

God, middle age is an unending insult.

Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be a peace on earth for one entire day.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.