Author: leilani

For the two people who still read my blog, y’all know I write books. Ostensibly I write both fiction and non-fiction, but the fact of the matter is that for me, writing fiction is right on par with having my fingernails pulled out, a la Syriana (only without George Clooney.) I’m trying now to negotiate…

Like most or all of my (admittedly few) readers, I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the loss of our friend Paula, aka Poolie. I started trading bon mots with her circa 2003, about the time we both belonged to the Diaryland blogging community. I met her before I met my husband. I was…

For any of y’all who have published a book, especially if you also did the formatting for it, you’re going to understand me when I say I hate the formatting process. Lest you accuse me of ignorance, this ain’t my first rodeo at the book printing process, so it in theory should be simpler. Except,…

As we watch our nation devolve into Nazi America, if you’re wondering how it happened, I can show you exactly how it happened. Read this article. If it doesn’t chill you to the bone, nothing can. And I can vouch for it, because I lived it. I grew up in one of those types of…

New mantra: I love insane pressure, I love insane pressure, I love insane pressure… We revised the photography site logo. I really didn’t like the one we had but wanted something distinct, clean, and unique. So we bit the bullet and hired someone to design it. I’m glad we did. Revised logo for the photo…