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Positive Thinking–Does a Body Good

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Life in a post-pandemic world. Political and economic upheaval. Environmental threats. Social injustice challenges. And then there’s just the everyday human, family living drama, which begins upon waking. Taken separately or...

April is Stress Health Awareness Month

What're you doing here? You know the drill. I'm extra sans serif—no blog this month. See you in May. Go. Be serif, be well/safe, de-stress, and indulge in the non-stressful (re-reading a fave novel comes to mind). For more on my writing life, check out my newsletter,...

Primer for a Certain J-Justice

Judge Judith Scheindlin (and her respective syndicated shows) is an icon, a part of the culture reference pantheon. In book 3 of my series, Broken Benevolence, main character Oscar Brooks watches a lot of syndicated TV… In my writing downtime, I’ve watched years’...

Book Genres: Writing Is As Writing Does, Pt. 2

In the previous Sans Serif, I discussed the main and most recognizable book genres. With fiction, though, writers tend to delve into a mix of genres. Horror writers blend in elements of romance, while writers of westerns can include numerous comical points. Subgenres...