Weaving Worlds, Word by Word
“The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.”
–Charles Kuralt
Is The Time To Take Action Always “Now”?
We’ve all seen these motivators. These kick-butt, get-out-there-and-conquer the world catch phrases. Each implies we can be more than we are if we just go do it! Think Tony Robbins’ neuro-linguistic programming on speed. Picture cheerleaders and pom-poms and confetti....
The Sublime Déjà vu of a Christmas Scent
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
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...
Ten Positive Actions to Start Doing Now (While You Still Can!)
November ushered us into Thanksgiving, a time when we rightly pondered our blessings as we stared at an overcooked Butterball turkey and tolerated our curmudgeonly Uncle Bob. Fortunately, gratitude isn’t limited to November, or to things or situations. It can...
5 of the Most Haunting Places to Visit in Savannah, GA
After my son Matt, then a teenager, visited Savannah for the first time, I asked him to describe the city in one or two words. His immediate response: “Haunting.” I had to agree. Few places produce that looking-over-my-shoulder feeling that Savannah does. No surprise...
Undergoing Southernization – the Second Tier of What to Expect
Hi ya’ll. I’m writing to you from my somewhat-new home deep in the heart of Dixie. My house sell in the mid-Atlantic region is now behind me, and full Southernization is underway. “The South” — commonly referred to as the American South or Dixie — leans toward...
Your Go-To List for Housewarming Ideas
Moving into a new home is a significant event, often marking both the culmination of one dream and the beginning of another. Knowing that the move may be a poignant moment for someone special, why not celebrate it with a thought, gift or ritual (or all three) that...
Questions to Accelerate Good Conversation
I began my professional life as a journalist, before moving into public relations and working on the other side of the microphone and the camera. Through those early years, I developed a list of questions that I used to draw out the “human” side of my...
Are You a Music Fan?
A beta reader for Crossing into the Mystic suggested that I was showing my age by having my character Clay – a young, brave, dashing, handsome guy, of course – describe the Eagles’ Greatest Hits album as the best one ever produced. Clay shares this thought while...
Dirt or Concrete?
I live on one end of this road. The world, on the other. I love that separating me from (or bridging me to...A matter of perspective?) that world is a red dirt road. A path made of earth—clay, sand and gravel that groans and shifts as if irritated when my shoes or...
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.
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