Flashback to 1973. I was a sophomore at Central Washington State College (Now Central Washington University) in Ellensburg. The night air was clean and crisp. A crowd gathered along the winding walkways between the cluster of dormitories. The group of dorms included...
Mark Twain, arguably the most celebrated American Humorist of all time, has long been a favorite author of mine. I even made a pilgrimage to his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, a few years ago. There I attended a Mark Twain lecture/show, and was enthralled by the...
Five boxes, each containing 10 contributor copies of “Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Gift of Christmas” were left on my porch by the UPS guy Friday night. I got 50 copies because I have five stories included in this gorgeous hardbound volume. That’s right—I wrote five...
JanBonoBooks.com is up and running! Another step in my quest to be a viable entity in the writing and publishing world has been achieved! And I’m sooooo excited! Four years ago, when I retired from full-time teaching, I had no idea it was my destiny to have a website...
“Senorita! You like my bracelets?” The young caramel-skinned man scurried behind me as I labored through hot, deep, sand, eager to catch the water taxi to Pelican Rock. “No hoy, gracias,” I replied, grateful for the few Spanish phrases I could recite without thinking....
