2020 Goals

2019 was a good year for me and mine. Kids all have good jobs and goals. Hubby did have a health scare but it came to nothing. My health has been great other than a couple knee flareups. No asthma, no bronchitis! Hubby and I have stuck to our keto way of eating and are reaping the benefits.

I retired in April, a few years early, but I was able to get cheap health insurance, which made the difference. Love being home! So much less stress. Medical billing is crazy and frustrating, do not miss it.

We built a deck on the house and have future home improvements. Being at home makes those goals easier!

I got an adorable puppy, Nutmeg, and will be taking doggy classes with her. Also plan to work on more crafty stuff and to read more non-fiction.

I published a few short stories in 2019, which was good after a long dry spell.

I have more ambitious plans for 2020:


Cyborg Salvage, Diaspora Worlds Series  Dooley, who was a pilot in Alien Blood Book 2., now has a freighter full of rescued schoolchildren. On a remote asteroid, he salvages weapons from a decimated cyborg army attack. A handful of cyborgs survive and he invites them aboard. One of them is 2LN77, a cyborg woman he met and desired to rescue years ago.

Pixi  (short holiday story) Pixi is one of the cyborgs Dooley rescues. She was an experiment, a child cyborg fitted with a complex neural interface. The experiment failed, the neural net doesn't work. As a teenager, she fits right in with the kids Dooley rescued from Spaceship Camp. They get this great idea...

Dauntless Lady, Starship Sisters Book One  Following a bombing several young women join together to get out of the city to a countryside college. A college professor and several of her students have been secretly researching about the starship that brought their ancestors from Terra to Idunn. They find it. They can help their families and others, devastated by war. In their society, young ladies would do the proper thing and give control of the ship to their fathers and other elders. They decided to keep it.

Spacemen from Liln  (stand-alone) Hidden for decades in the mountains of Montana, the Liln offer free health care to women with terrible immune diseases. Jani, facing homelessness as well as illness, is so thankful. She and her handsome young doctor Vrennan start a forbidden affair. He fails to report that some of her meds had to be stopped to his superiors, so she isn't forced to leave. Women who are too sharp and aware must leave before they discover the Liln's secret. Jani starts to notice strange, late night activity at the resort and decides to investigate.