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The Lockhart Women opens on the night of June 17, 1994, with Brenda Lockhart stressing about her husband’s unexpected insistence on going to a coworker’s

The April 2023 issue of Midwest Book Review’s online “Reviewer’s Bookwatch” features a review of “The Lockhart Women.” Scroll down on the link to read

Last month I slipped anonymously into a Huntington Beach TEA community meeting to hear our city attorney Michael Gates discuss his most recent battle with

The Hasty Book List started as a hashtag on Instagram so Ashley Hasty could keep track of the books she’d read and refer back to

When writer friend Valerie Taylor proposed a Best Book of the Decades project for the “Books Live Forever” Facebook page, I claimed my own decade,

NEXT TIME YOU’RE IN SEATTLE… Stop by the beautiful public library downtown. They not only have copies of The Lockhart Women on their shelves, they

Voyage LA Magazine included an interview with me in their Daily Inspiration feature as part of the Orange County Collection. I got to talk about

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday but every day is a good day to support community. My favorite bookstore and community space is LibroMobile in Santa Ana,

Although most of the country did not experience the projected “red wave” in last week’s midterm elections, my hometown of Huntington Beach, California was a

The seven-member city council in my hometown of Huntington Beach currently has four vacancies to fill in the upcoming November election. There are 18 candidates

Riley agrees–it’s complicated being a Dodger fan. LA Times columnist Bill Plaschke recently wrote about one fan’s game experience. This fan is a part-time season