Growing Bolder Community

Can I interest a few readers in reading my book "Running with Stilettos" and then posting an impartial review on Amazon? Here's a link to the book in the Kindle Store. If you are interested in reading it and then reviewing it, please email me and I can send you a review copy!...

I just did an interview with a website called "Imperfect Women." I feel like I may have found my home planet, a bit like Gonzo did in the movie "Muppets From Space". AAAhhhhhh... what a relief to find a celebration of being real instead of trying to be perfect! At any rate, here's the link. We talk about my books, and life in general, and the fact that this weekend (Saturday and Sunday, January...

I hope someone has a happy ending for this gardening mishap!! I grew impatient staring at the brown orchid-less stalk of a phalenopsis that had bloomed months ago...and finally cut it off once a new flower spike had started. BUT...after I cut off this long stalk (nice and juicy green inside, eek!), I finally noticed that a new flower spike was just starting half-way down the stem. It's now...

Romance! Christmas! Second chances! Happy endings! And a winter storm! I was just in that kind of a mood for the past couple of weeks as this short story worked its way out of my head, through my fingertips to the keyboard, and then finally into Amazon's Kindle Store. You can check out the listing, and preview the first few pages here at The Last Christmas Tree. And in case you're wondering,...

I first heard about “The Next Big Thing Blog Hop” on a Facebook post from the Florida Writers Association page, when a young writer I’d recently met, Bitten Twice, asked if anyone was interested in participating. I hadn’t heard of it before, but it sounded like fun! Basically, it amounts to an Independent Authors game of tag, where authors who have recently published books or have “works...

Reflections on the importance of government student loan programs. When I graduated from high school at seventeen, I was living on a ramshackle farm with no indoor bathroom in the middle of nowhere, with a family that didn't have an extra dime. I literally did not have $25 to my name for a college application fee. Two years passed, and I finally got into Marquette University, funded at first...

I'm stepping into new frontiers again with my first official foray into fiction writing--a short story titled "The Wedding Dress" that I've published through Kindle Direct Publishing on Amazon. After five years of writing essays, I figured it was about time to dip a toe into new waters. You can check out the cover and the first few paragraphs for free on Amazon with this link:...

Sharing a link to a wonderful feature/interview with my daughter. Sarah Muehlbauer, on the threshold of her directorial debut in Philadelphia. Who says you have to be over fifty to be "growing bolder"?? I draw a lot of inspiration and courage from all four of my children, but at this exact moment, it's Sarah's turn to...

Giving a "shout out" to my younger daughter, Sarah Muehlbauer, who managed to fit in some archery practice recently for an upcoming role as Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt, in a set of circus aerial performances based on mythology at the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts set for July 28. The website for the circus arts school touts the two evening performances as "Circus Soiree: Greek Mythology,...