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Mary Ryan Jones
Andersen Light’s Georgie Jones' relationship with her mother, Mary Ryan Jones, isn’t complicated. It’s understandable. After all, people are multifaceted, and their relationship continually reshapes with life situations. Georgie’s…
The Fork & What Would Luther Say?
Indecision
You’re in the angst of indecision. The weight of the “right" way presses your shoulders and stomach into knots as you face the fork in the road. You’ve researched and data gathered, analyzed, and listed the pros and cons,…
Grateful
I am grateful for last year. In the beginning I took on a transitional, and what I supposed would be a supporting role in a local New Thought church called Unity. Rather, the ministry immediately became life’s front and center—while I sported…
Cafeteria Halloween Food
Halloween plays a huge role in my upcoming novel, Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel. There’s a big to-do at the lighthouse, at the high school (even the “teachers dressed to reflect their class subjects"), and many nighttime parties…
Write from Here
I write from here in southern New Mexico (neither new nor Mexico, as they say around here) about characters in a made up town on the west coast of the United States. I’m calling the location southern Oregon.
How do I write…
Close Connections
What close connections pull fictional characters Georgie Jones and Luther Andersen together, aside from the little matter of a prophecy?
Grandma and Grandpa Jones
Luther is a lighthouse keeper, professor, and Georgie’s eventual mentor. He's…
Willing
Georgie Jones is not a balker by nature. She chooses instead to be willing—or at least willing to be willing.
Willing to Act
Early in the story and from the safety of a willow tree in her dad’s yard, primary character Georgie recalls…
Search Is On!
The Search Is On!
The search is on for the right agent and publisher to bring young Georgie Jones, her mentor Luther Andersen, and their friends and family to the world!
On behalf of Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel (as in lighthouse),…
Real Life Luthers
The Missouri Luther
A man called Luther was a friend and helpmate of my grandparents in a little town in southwest Missouri. I met him while visiting them as a very young child. I’m not sure how I actually remember Luther, but he made a big…
Pizza Power
Pizza Power
Have you contemplated the power of pizza?
I’m not talking about the robust declarations of definitive bests:
Crust―thick, thin, deep dish, white, sourdough, whole grain….
Shape―round, square, avant garde….
…
Carriage House – Both Workshop and Garage
Back in the day, people rode in carriages instead of automobiles and parked them in carriage houses. The original carriage house on the novel’s fictional Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel estate was quite large. Luther Andersen eventually…