My children used to think that it was exciting to get up at 4 a.m. and go out shopping on so-called, “Black Friday,” the day apparently consecrated to holiday sales. Then, one of my daughters saw a stampede at an electronics store in which a woman’s leg was broken – and that put a stop…

Men think they are attractive because they are powerful. Or smart. Or fit. Let me tell you a secret. I know the truth about what women find most attractive in a man – and it’s not money and it’s not a title. I once asked one of my daughters, what would a woman do for…

As I finished work on my most recent novel (Here, Below the Surface, to debut in 2023), I realized that I had somehow incorporated (yet again) a plot point that reflects my obsession with women changing their names when they marry.  I’ve thought about this since I first married and was told, by the school…