Author: Mary Ann

Nestled on Camano Island in Washington State, I share my life with my husband and our two golden retrievers — my loyal writing assistants. As a mother of three and proud grandma of three amazing grandkids, family is at the heart of everything I write. In fact, they helped shape the characters in my middle grade fantasy trilogy, which began as bedtime stories and blossomed into The Carnelian Game — a magical adventure that spans the globe.
  • Confusion

    It’s kind of hard to know where to begin! There is a downright plethora of issues a blogger could run with today. I mean, turn on the news for five or six minutes and there you go! All kinds of issues to disect and attack from every imaginable angle. So, Iv’e decided to take on…

  • Who Are We?

      We are a people of free will. We own it. There is an evident problem in our world today in that free will has wandered down the low road. How it ever became unattractive to follow the high road, I will never know. Yet, increasingly, the dark side of human nature is being revealed…

  • “You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind”

      There is an Irish saying that goes like this;  “You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.”  This is a truism. An absolute. I’ve done so many incredible things in my mind! If only… I am making a list, prioritizing. It’s about purging the clutter, things that no longer get…

  • Laughter

    I sat on the beach yesterday with my daughter-in-law and her dear friend and laughed till I cried. Literally wiped away tears of laughter as I witnessed the girls get carried away in the hilarity of their goofy moment. They were beyond comic genius, and the farther they went, the better I felt. Did they…

  • Changes

      Why does everything have to change? Flowers bloom and disappear quick as the sun sets in Aruba. People burst through the front door of our lives then sneak out the back without a second thought. Beloved dogs are puppies one day and arthritic the next. It’s hard to keep up! My favorite place on…

  • Eclipse News

    The good news is, I made it through the eclipse without frying my eyeballs out. The bad news is, I was so unprepared, no protective glasses, nothing, so I ended up watching it on the NASA website via laptop. Oh well. It was all very interesting and Lord knows we need a little excitement now…