I hate Valentine’s Day. As we have all realized by now, everything about this designated day of “love” is painfully artificial. (Except the chocolates, they are delicious…) What is so egregiously insulting about this fake holiday is that *real* love is actually the antithesis of [Read more…]

The feeling starts not long after crossing the border, south of Dothan. Though the cotton fields are long past harvest in late November, a light dusting of leftover rebel snow is still tangled in the grassy shoulders of the road. From the car window I [Read more…]

Less than 360 days now stand between me and… *gulp* …thirty. Wrapping my lips around that number is difficult. Every time my mind tries to comprehend that I have been walking around on this Earth for nearly three decades, the process is halted by the [Read more…]

Killer Shine simply would not exist without Candi Fisher. As I mentioned last week, the story of Candi’s son Ethan touched me so much I decided to work Fanconi anemia into the Killer Shine plot to help spread the word about this incurable, life threatening [Read more…]