ECHO HERON

As a rule of thumb, I don't follow the rules - not when I dress, shoot photos, and especially not when I write. When I was eleven, my sixth grade teacher told me that one should NEVER begin a sentence with a conjunction. And here I am, all these decades later, still breaking the rules.
The most valuable advice my mother gave me about being a creative soul was that it was best to break rules, colour outside the lines, and never allow others' opinions to interfere with what I thought was good. Thus, I might wear white shoes in February or take a photo of a toe adorned with sea bubbles, or...a giant thumb.
Breaking rules is especially good when writing. Early in my writing career, I was told that humor and bad language had no place in books about life behind the sacred closed doors of hospital critical care units. Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, I am not, so excuse me while I guffaw and swear a little.
Now, according to the publishers, I'm bending rules by breaking out of the 'niche writer' box and writing in other genres. When I finally figure out how to get my new work out to the readers, I'm hoping the transition will be smooth. My husband, upon reading this blog, assured me that 90% of all people alive today will have no idea who the hell Cherry Ames is - maybe things are looking up after all.

75 degrees, deep blue sky. Splashing through the surf clear as day and warm as bath water. Dolphins playing toss so close I want to grab a dorsal fin and fly. Hey....it's one way to beat Raynaud's.

This is my first blog. Please notice the blog photo of me and Zuludog taking a stroll on the Moon - which is pretty much where I've been living for the past five years - on the Moon.
Why?
I've been wandering in writing space, working on a new book that required years of research - literally. Before that, I was cranking out other books.
Now I'm neck deep in navigating the bobsled run of social media in hopes of notifying readers that I have returned from the Moon bearing gifts. Stay tuned while I work on the daunting task of publishing all my new work.