I was not completely honest with my husband the other night. He, from the living room, asked me, on the deck: Who are you talking to?

At this point in its existence, the actual writing of In Light of Recent Events (shorthand: ILORE) is a bit of a blur.

This blog originally started as my top 5 favorite movies. While I love movies and do have some true favorites (big hugs to you, Raiders of the Lost Ark), I find that it’s the quality TV series that really stay with me.

I was a musician long before I was a writer, having learned from my mother how to play folk guitar when I was eight.

It officially started in 2000, though the seeds were planted a few years before when two characters appeared in a free-write exercise during one of the weekly sessions that I used to go to for the Burlington Writers Group.

It was early fall, just three weeks after my daughter had the cast removed from her right arm when she managed to break the left one.