When our daughter and son-in-law invited us to go to Paris for New Year’s, they said that they would get the plane reservations and the hotel but “You plan it!” Hmmmmm? Plan 5 days, and my daughter had never been there, her husband had only been there on business and my husband and I hadn’t been [...]
While everyone was watching the new Royal Couple several weeks ago, I was watching the Queen.
My grandmother was a ‘Sleeping Beauty’. She worked hard, even taking in boarders to raise 4 children, then she raised me and then my aunt brought home an Indian girl for her to raise. When she had finished, she died. She had finished being what she was supposed to be and doing what she was [...]
I’ve been away, oh, not away, like gone fishin’ away–I’ve written that blog. No, away, like Hawaii away. Did you know there are no seagulls in Hawaii? Well, we flew cross country to San Diego then we sailed the ocean blue–the Pacific is very blue. It took five days to get there. Did you know that Hawaii is further away [...]
I’ve been in Phoenix for several weeks and couldn’t write because my laptop wasn’t working well; plus, I didn’t have a niche. Everyone needs a place to think. For example, in my novel Backstage at the White House, Stacey Lea, its heroine, had “The Pondrin’ Tree.” It was a great live oak blanketed with Spanish [...]