Changing Places

“At the same time there was a solitude to this place of a kind that was rare. Beyond this last gasp of farms the road began weaving through boulders and ridges and ran higher up off the immense and flat bottomlands. Noel took a dirt track off the highway and rolled amidst the boulders and […]

Changing Saddles

“Let the world do what the world does. I don’t think I’ve ever taken this trail that it hasn’t changed me. Leave in the morning one person, and come back another kind.” June, An old cowgirl from Jiggs, Nevada Highway Home Kicking up some dust on a trail hike can do […]

Operation Sex Change

At moments Noel didn’t know if what he was doing was actually something she wanted. He tried biting her gently, and she cried out for him to stop, and when he did she held him back and would not let him get away. Highway Home In my first novel Highway […]

The Art of Change…My Mind is Made Up…

How fictional characters change in Highway Home and Bankrupt Heart. Neuroplasticity is a term to describe how we build connections in our brains. We can build connections by physically moving our bodies and we can build connections simply by thinking. Old thinking tends to travel down familiar neural highways. New thinking tends […]