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Bikes, Cowboys and Other Goodness

by D. L. Koontz | Dec 19, 2023 | Life Ever-Changing

I was early for an appointment so I dashed into our local coffee shop, ‘Connections’. While waiting for my order, I made eye contact with a woman who looked up from her book. “What’cha reading?” I asked, although I suspected it was a Bible. They have a distinctive...

Keep Calm and Carry On

by D. L. Koontz | Aug 30, 2021 | Life Ever-Changing

Is that even possible, as our country falters around us? If you’re like me, you can’t believe what has happened so far in 2021. The Delta variant, inflation, chaos at the border, product shortages, and so on. Mostly, my heart is breaking for the innocents left behind...

Confidence, Paging Confidence…Has it Left the Building?

by D. L. Koontz | May 30, 2015 | Journal, Life Ever-Changing, Life of a Writer, Sense and Nonsense

A Lesson from an Island Stranger “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”― Henry David Thoreau “The eyes of others (are) our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” ― Virginia Woolf “When I was a child my mother said...

If These Walls Could Only Talk….

by D. L. Koontz | May 14, 2015 | Civil War Tears, Journal, Life Ever-Changing, Sense and Nonsense

Here’s what happens when they do. My writing friend Tami arrived at the restaurant sporting a big smile and her trademark thick, wavy hair, and dropped into the seat opposite me saying, “I dreamed a whole book last night.” We squealed, as only writers would do who...

The Sublime Déjà vu of a Christmas Scent

by D. L. Koontz | Dec 21, 2014 | Journal, Life Ever-Changing, Sense and Nonsense, Trysts with Lists, Uncategorized

Certain scents instantly transport me back in time. It’s probably best if I gloss over the scents that take me back to shoveling endless piles of manure on the family farm, and those associated with my college days and other periods of poor decision-making. But...

Affordable and Easy Christmas Traditions

by D. L. Koontz | Dec 16, 2014 | Journal, Life Ever-Changing, Sense and Nonsense, Significant Others, Trysts with Lists

Christmas Traditions that Won’t Break the Bank or Zap Your Energy When my son was born years ago, I panicked when Christmas rolled around. I wanted to fill his life with traditions he would remember until he was an old man. So, I started taking stock. Turns...

Historical intrigue interwoven with modern-day suspense and a touch of the mysterious.

Contemporary romantic suspense.

Coming-of-age sagas.

About Koontz’s Writing:

An award-winning writer, former journalist and corporate escapee, D. L. Koontz writes about what she knows: muddled lives, nail-biting unknowns and eternal hope. Growing up, she learned the power of stories and intrigue from saged storytellers on the front porch of her Allegheny Mountains farmhouse. Despite being waylaid for years by academia and corporate endeavors, her roots proved that becoming a writer of suspense was only a matter of time. She has been published in seven languages.