On May 1st I wrote about my disillusionment with the year 2013. And immediately upon posting it, I thought about the flip side: What is there in this year to be grateful for? It didn’t take long for me to make a pretty decent list of positives. While these gratitudes...
In 1962, I was in the second grade. My scrapbook consisted mainly of pictures of horses I’d cut out of the newspaper. If I were lucky, the images were in color. Most of the time, they were not. As an eight year old, I vowed that someday I’d see the Lippizaners in...
Trying to maintain a positive, upbeat outlook the past six weeks while being slammed with the fact that three of the people I most cherished on this earth have left it, has been one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to face. Just as I thought my muddled mind was...
If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile (this is post number 746, believe it or not), then you know I began writing the second book in my cozy mystery series in mid-January. And then it was like the gods and cosmos and planetary alignment and all things surreal...
Exactly five months ago, I celebrated the fact that the 2012 “Bazaar Season” was officially over, and relished the idea of not preparing for another big book selling event until October, 2013. But time has a way of easing all pain, and in a weak moment in February, I...
