My youngest son turned sixteen this week and I made him lemon brownies because he asked for white cake. No, I actually haven’t lost my mind, really. My youngest child is my gentle child and he requires special listening skills to understand what he is saying. For his birthday we were trying to get the extended family together for dinner. It is always challenging to bring all of us together. While I am blessed that … Continue reading →
A few pictures to share with you from the 2013 Louisville JASNA Festival. More to come soon. I will post more on the festival soon!
Continue reading →When in doubt and you live with teenagers, blame it on the kids! I remember being a ten year old hunting and pecking at an old Smith-Corona manual typewriter, banging out my first short story anthology. I still have those pages, in a box on the shelves beside me, a reminder of how far I’ve come. As creative as I was back then—I did write science fiction after all—I would have never envisioned my desk … Continue reading →
Confession time, we all have them, secret little hang ups and peculiarities that we keep quiet. Today I have to fess up to my secret addiction: pretty office supplies!
Continue reading →You never know when new beginnings are in store for you. I certainly did not expect one. Sometime when you’re just minding your business, unexpected things happen. In this case a new beginning. I didn’t anticipate it, especially not one starting the way this one did. One person whispered some ugly, disgruntled gossip and someone else repeated it until those words blazed a path of destruction right over me. The whole thing left me wondering … Continue reading →
