November 24, 2018 I run late. About 15 minutes. My daughters do too. My son, well, he’s either early or late. But not being on time is...

November 10, 2018 I love this recipe and wanted to share it, especially with cooks who want to limit sodium. If you can use salt,...

October 20, 2018 I’ve just begun querying literary agents for my third novel Backstory. It’s literary suspense, I'm told. These days,...

October 8, 2018 Dear Readers and Followers: I'm supposed to keep my blog fresh, but sometimes writing a new post takes a good part of the...

September 13, 2018 In August, the Hubster and I took Amtrak from Austin to Chicago -- first time for this sort of journey. Sure, we'd...

July 24, 2018 I have scheduled a book promo for my mystery-thriller Out and In with Lone Star Literary Life, an e-news letter for Texas...

July 2, 2018 I recently tried out the new Goodreads Kindle giveaway, wherein I gave away 100 copies in Kindle format after paying...

June 24, 2018 Authors write to tell a story, to express a thought or emotion, to entertain. Mostly, we hope what we do impacts readers in...

May 3, 2018 I've not blogged since December due to a painful and annoying bout of carpal tunnel syndrome that resulted in surgery and an...

December 12, 2017 Besides holiday eggnog, I've developed an "over do it" problem with Dresden porcelain angels. Long ago, my niece's mom...

November 13, 2017 Sports writers seem to have a tough time coming up with metaphors for female athletes. The "Ava Bell" mentioned in this...

October 16, 2017 The revelation about Harvey Weinstein begs the question of why it took so many years for women to come forward to say he...

October 15, 2017 My pen name is Pat Dunlap Evans, but my official middle name is Kennedy, which was my mother's birth name. She's gone...

October 8, 2017 Our TV-watching dog Meryl Streep, named after the famed actress, was thrilled that the action-detective show "Hawaii...

October 7, 2017 My degrees are in English, but my academic focus was “creative writing and journalism.” After grad school, I got a job in...

August 28, 2017 My husband and I drove to Kansas City for the Great American Solar Eclipse, thinking we would view it in St. Joseph, MO,...

August 14, 2017 My brother in law is mad at me because I didn't have time to make his favorite cake for a family birthday party Sunday...

July 28, 2017 Since my last post, I've been to the Big Island of Hawaii and safely back. We took my three granddaughters on a "bucket...

July 3, 2017 July 4 is a holiday that begs for baked beans, but I dislike the mealy canned versions, doctored with too much brown sugar,...

June 24, 2017 At my age, one doesn’t consider the act of leaping. It’s just not something I do. But I found myself in need of a leap this...