

Raise Your Fork If You Like Pie?
It's #PiDay2019. I know, this isn't a "real" holiday but you have to love a social media day that celebrates baked goods and math. For me, finding ways to connect science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) pings all kinds of good stuff in my creative brain. As a writer, I want to explore and discuss the natural world. Whether my characters are digging for rare earth elements or hunting for venomous marine sna


A Fresh Story Really Makes A Difference
Depending on who you believe, or believe yourself, there are somewhere between six and nine universal stories or themes. These ideas run the gamut of love found and lost to revenge. They are the universal truths that audience and readers come back to time and again. But what makes us come back? I would argue that the most successful stories present something new. This summer, I took my girls to see an off-off-off Broadway play called H.O.M.E. This near-future story features