by toby | Sep 15, 2013 | The Writing Life
Inspired by social media and fortune cookies. I’ve blogged a lot about ideas, and creativity, and the way the brain processes information to generate new ideas… but today I want to share how my Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest/Instagram/G+ friends and their passion,...
by toby | Jul 14, 2013 | The Writing Life
Where do you get your ideas? People ask me this a lot. Seven books into my series (two not yet released) it’s actually become a little challenging to come up with new and original crime scenarios. I’ve included a lot of crimes in the Lei Crime Series ™, from the...
by toby | Jun 25, 2013 | The Writing Life
Why Writing What You Don’t Know is Better I confess: I’m technologically challenged. I like technology, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t LOVE it like my children and husband do. I still remember the year 1990 because that was when my husband got his first computer,...
by toby | Jun 1, 2013 | Life
Nuggets of insight from the road trip May 31, 2013 I had a memory of Carson City that kept us driving past the point of comfort from Great Basin in Utah. In this memory, I was seven months pregnant with Caleb and we spent a romantic weekend in a great big Victorian B...
by toby | Apr 3, 2013 | Life
The Beauty Venture: water patterns Water patterns have enchanted me for awhile. Here are some images from my last few years of collecting pictures of water. It almost immediately brings a sense of peace to look at water–in one of my hypnotherapy classes, we were...