Less than a day after writing this, I awakened to the announcement that Joe Biden is the forty-sixth president of the United States....

This brilliant and delightful person has been my writing buddy, since we both began to write seriously just over five years ago. My...

Anguish mounted. “I have moved those damn tables into every room in this house and they don’t belong anywhere. I need to get rid of...

Chesterton, Ohio in 1968. Mom came from Texas to visit just about this time of year. A beautiful autumn in the Midwest. My small tots...

October 2020 is here—an October like none other in my lifetime. Octobers of my past flutter through my mind like falling leaves. I’ll...

Fifteen very entertaining women-live and in vibrant technicolor, plus a couple on Zoom invited me to be a guest at their recent Book Club...

I love this powerful statement about love from an essay by Ottessa Moshfegh. So yeah, love - what is it? Does it start in the mind or the...

End of August. How unjust. September looms. Summer’s doom. Out, out damn Dahlias, lavender wands, lemonade with mint. Au Revoir my floppy...

Summer of orange Valencias outside my window Fruit of inspiration Fragrance swirling in the air My book in blossom Everything orange Days...

I devoured my book club’s recent selection, So Long, See You Tomorrow, an artistic novella which was described several years ago as “one...

I find myself going around in quarantine circles, screen to screen to screen.ad With dizzying regularity. Like a pirouetting ballerina,...

and as the creepy boys in sixth grade loved to chant, "She's not a poet, but her feet show it-they're longfellows." Was that bullying? I...

Here we are, all masked souls. At least a large majority of us. Or is the majority not so large? Whether you think masking is good or...

“Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none as sweet as friends; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at...

I know I loved writing one... The Orange Woods - Seasons in the Country Artfully Lived has been out in the safe-distanced world now for...

The long and winding road to flat belly… In reality the road is long, but not winding. In order for me to pare down the girth of my...

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Meet MB Hanrahan, a multi-talented artist who lives and creates in Ventura, California. According to the artist, who considers herself a...

I’m beyond thrilled that my book, The Orange Woods – Seasons in the Country Lived Artfully – has just been released. The road to...

It’s midway through the third month of shelter-in-place and strangely, this surreal stage play has become normal. And just as that has...