Happy/Merry/Blessed whatever holiday you celebrate. And isn’t celebration a wonderful thing? It’s life-giving, soul-nurturing, and just plain fun. I hope you have many reasons to celebrate this year. Here are two reasons we’re celebrating: Paulina and Eleanor. After waiting for many years our twin granddaughters, these two bundles of absolute joy, arrived in September. Their personalities are as different as their looks. Paulina has FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) and wants to see everything. Eleanor is very social concentrates on you while you talk to her. They were very worth waiting for. My heart. Another reason I’m feeling in a Read More
Category: Writer’s World
Do You Judge a Book by Its Cover?
Writing a book is hard. Thinking of a title and a book cover is sometimes harder. Especially because those are the first two things that readers are influenced by. For some of my books, like The Cavanaugh House and The Last Crossing, Boris (my muse) whispered the inspiration for the title and cover in my ear. I knew what they would be from the get-go. But Boris must have been on vacation in the Bahamas when it came to Buried Secrets and Exposed The initial title for Buried Secrets was The Mystery at St. Bartholomew’s. It sounded like a Nancy Drew Read More
Cinderella Meets Marie Kondo, and I Get to Go Shoe Shopping
I recently discovered that my foot has grown a full size. I’ve decided to blame it in the pandemic since that’s not all that has increased in size, if you get my drift. I needed new tennis shoes/sneakers for my daily walks, and that’s when I found out about my shoe size. The pleasant young man informed me that I now wore a size 9. What?? I’ve always been an 8. Okay, I did slide up to an 8.5 once or twice, but I blamed it on poor manufacturing. Though maybe this was why my big toe hurt so much… Read More
My “One Little Word” for 2021 – Listen
“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.” ~ Zeno of Citium as quoted by Diogenes Laertius My “One Little Word” for 2021—LISTEN—grabbed me and held on since last summer when I created my vision board. Usually, my vision boards are filled with words and writing goals, but not this one. There are few words, and somehow, “listen” showed up on it twice. In addition, last night I opened two books of poetry to read, and “listen” grabbed me again. In the first poem by the late Jon Tribble, “The Divine,” the Read More
I Saw 3 Shipts Come Sailing (and other new traditions)
What a year, huh? What with COVID and other difficult things we’ve all been dealing with, how our lives have changed. I hope you and your loved ones are safe and well. The holiday season is different, for sure, but I hope you will find ways to celebrate and maybe discover some new traditions. I’m reflecting on some positive aspects of 2020 that I can be grateful for, and I’ve actually found some. Especially some new skill sets. Zoom I fumbled my way through learning how to Zoom (like Google, it’s become both a noun and a verb- the opposite Read More