I’m publishing this post a day early today in honor of Orange Shirt Day—Every Child Matters, commemorating the thousands of Indigenous children, both here in the U.S. and in Canada, who were taken fro...

Tilcayo was living with a human family for the first part of his life, enjoying the pampering his domesticated cousins routinely collect as their due from their human guardians. But it soon became obv...

Disturbing, maybe, but coyotes have to eat, too. And just think how much poor Coyote has spent on Acme products--and hospital bills--over the years!

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the modest beginning of a science fiction juggernaut, a phenomenon that spans not only decades but generations. An idea led to a television show, then grew to i...

We lost one of the bright lights of the world this week when songwriter, musician, singer, actor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and uniquely beautiful person Dolly Parton succumbed to cancer at a hospi...

I was 13 and in the throes of teenage obsession. I wasn't the only one, of course. I was just one of millions around the world in love with The Beatles, that musical and pop culture phenomenon that ha...

I recently had the rather embarrassing experience of receiving a ticket in the mail for (ahem) having driven somewhat over the posted speed limit in a certain county in Virginia on my way to the Shore...

I'm back at home after a successful weekend at Shore Leave 46 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. There was lots of fun to be had celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Star Trek, but the con is a long three day...

It's that time of year again, dear readers, as I head up to Lancaster, Pennsylvania for the annual Shore Leave SF Convention. Shore Leave is the largest fan-run SF con in the country, now celebrating ...

Two hundred fifty years ago during a similarly sweltering July in Philadelphia, a group of political hotheads came together to propose a radical idea: that the people of what were at the time a string...

It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed any films for the blog, but I’ve been on a movie-watching binge lately, so I need to share. Summer is the best time for movies, after all, and right now, there ar...

I’ve had a long history of watching things on a screen: movies on a theater screen from the days of black and white and Technicolor to the time of Cinerama and Imax; television from tiny black and whi...

The folks in my little hometown love to find an excuse to party. And one of our favorite excuses has always been the Mermaid Parade and Festival in June. Last summer, though, Marshall was still recove...

As we start the summer, our household is welcoming some new family members. We lost our elderly cat Shadow a few months ago, and our younger cat has been missing her auntie. Flash is still quite lively and would benefit ...

For my last post about our trip to New Zealand, I want to focus on the indigenous peoples of the islands, the Maori. These Polynesian islanders came to New Zealand from Eastern Polynesia (Hawaii or Ta...

As I write this I’m actually back on U.S. soil in beautiful Hawaii, but I still have a couple more posts to share with you from our last week in New Zealand. That was one of our most eventful weeks of...

We’d been mostly lucky with weather here in NZ, aside from a few wet days here and there.

Apologies for the delay in posting this episode of the blog. We’ve been on the rpad and without reliable Internet for a few days. And, in fact, ongoing technical difficulties are making it impossible ...

Our first week and more in New Zealand has been a blitzkrieg of activpity Seinfeld we landed in Auckland on April 2. There we took a tram tour around the city to see the sights from Mt.Eden at the top to the waterfront w...

Publishing this post a day early this week, because I'm leaving VERY early tomorrow on a lengthy trip to New Zealand via Hawaii to celebrate 50 years of wedded bliss with my spousal unit. As you might...

Okay, you want the good news or the bad news first? Admittedly, there’s not much good news to be had this week, with the world on fire and all, so why don’t we save that for the end of today’s post to...

It should be no surprise to those of you who’ve followed my blog for a while or read my books that I’m a fan of kick-ass heroines: Sarah Connor, Ripley, Furiosa, Claire Beauchamp Fraser, Emma Peel. I ...

Enough already.

Event in Marshall, NC by Donna S. Frelick/Author on Sunday, February 1 2026

Y’all, I truly would prefer to post a photo of a fluffy kitten this week and pretend our country was not going to hell in a flaming handbasket. But with my small privilege (this platform) comes a modi...

Whether it's Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or simply the passing from darkness to light at the Winter Solstice, find a way to celebrate this holiday season with joy and a giving spirit! Here's wishing ...

It’s that time of year, y’all. Time we all got to decorating for the holidays! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, the Winter Solstice or some other nod to the returning of the light...

Critics of romance (in all its subgenre forms) like to sneer that it’s written to a formula. You know: girl meets boy (“the meet cute”), girl gets boy (through many ups and downs), girl loses boy (“th...

I'm deep in revisions for my new book, Purgatory Gap: A Small Town Science Fiction Romance (Alienville Book 2), so I don't have time to write a long post today. Instead, enjoy this photo of my older k...

I mentioned last week that some writers are “plotters” and some are “pantsers,” but that I fall somewhere between those two extremes of book planning. Since then, I’ve received a few messages from fel...