Apr 27, 2023 | Unsolved Mysteries
I read a lot of true crime. No matter how upsetting the story, I can usually put it aside after I’ve finished reading. Not so with the sad, strange case of Elisa Lam. Lam, a 21-year-old Vancouver woman, went missing during a solo trip to Los Angeles in 2013....
Mar 2, 2016 | The Writing Life
Ever have one of those weeks where everything goes wrong? Well, that has been the last two weeks for me. It got so bad, I was seriously considering giving up writing–the first time I’ve hit a low that deep since my early twenties. And then, just when I...
Nov 27, 2015 | The Life Less Ordinary
November 27th and 28th are grim anniversaries for me–on both days, a wonderful person I loved lost his battle with depression. I initially wrote this post for my friend Stan Mak, who passed away on November 27th, 2013, but I’m sharing it again in...
Nov 10, 2015 | The Writing Life
Usually I limit myself to one writing-related post per month. But something has been irritating the living hell out of me for years, and the more time that passes, the angrier I get. So, lest I morph into some female version of The Incredible Hulk, I’ll expel...
Dec 4, 2013 | The Writing Life
As writers, we have one great, powerful tool. A voice. And whether we use that voice for good or ill, for something that will make people think or make them laugh, is up to us. I tended to use that voice to scare people. Until recently. A good friend of mine took his...
