If you are a Californian, you know what is coming. For Manhattan dwellers, it is Central Park strolls with the first nips in the air. For Michiganders, it is the leaves in every variation of red, orange, and yellow, a spell of seasonal transformation that lasts a few fleeting weeks. For most, it is the ...

Author Thomas Wolfe wrote a novel titled, You Cannot Go Home Again. My sister, Tracy, and I learned the meaning of that when we visited our dad in Bremerton, Washington. We left Saturday morning, April 16th, and it was a gorgeous Arizona spring day. Perfect day for traveling, and that first day was uneventful. We ...

This week we are taking a trip to Elfin Forest. Haunted houses are spooky, but you can leave or move most of the time. Haunted forests and land are a whole different issue, plus San Diego County is less known for its haunted forest and more for its beaches and surfing unless you ask locals ...

Read Part 2 My Face For The World To See by Alfred Hayes was an awful book in Deirdre’s opinion, but she kept reading it out of morbid curiosity. When she’d finally flipped the last page, thoroughly disgusted with the characters, it landed on Ian’s nightstand.  “That was pointless,” she said, falling back onto the ...

Read Snow Skins – Part 1 here. Trigger Warning: Mentions of Sex San Francisco, when she arrived, was terrifying and exciting. Moving in with her friend was less so. They’d known each other since elementary school, and his girlfriend, Sarah, was even easier to get along with. Deirdre got hired at a bakery called Bake ...

It was an awful thing to give birth. To feel the blood escape while your body stretches around a thing that had been growing, living off of you, for months. Deirdre gripped the headboard of the bed. Three years ago, she’d never imagined this, would have laughed if you suggested it. But now, all she ...

What was supposed to be a law protecting freelance and gig workers has become a nightmare for me. My dreams of becoming a freelance writer have begun to fade away.

2020 has been a difficult year for just about everyone. Whether it be a lot of a job, losing your home, or being infected with COVID 19, we have all struggled in some way. Our lives have changed in such drastic ways that there is only a small resemblance of what they were this time ...

One of the best things I love about writing this Cryptid series is learning something new every time. I love the unknown, reading stories and articles about the phantoms that haunt our land.  This week in California, I expected to discover another Bigfoot-like creature. Instead, I uncover strange and mysterious figures called ‘Dark Watcher’s.’ Mysterious ...

California. Sandy beaches, temperate weather year-round, tech giants, and Hollywood. Many dream of a life in California, and the aspirations of an acting career or the next great tech startup. For some, it is lazy days laying out on the beach. Many say Californians are living the dream, but they couldn’t be more wrong. For ...