Reviews Are Not Book Reports

I’ve blogged about this before, but the resistance to writing reviews continues and I’m not sure why. Reviews are not book reports. They can be one or two sentences that say what you liked or didn’t like about a book. My most successful book to date has been a historical romance called Scandal’s Child. It … Read more

I See Dead People

Nothing is more heart-wrenching than to see an email from someone who has died, a message sent by a stranger who has picked up that person’s identity and created a similar email address for themselves. It usually begins “Hi” and immediately you know you do not want to open it. The same happens on Facebook. … Read more

Goodbye Sea Bear

Moving day arrived. We flew to Washington on a partly sunny day with rain predicted for the next. But weather wasn’t a factor. We found the boat in the warehouse, waiting for a steaming light to be installed. If we felt emotional about selling our home on the water, we tamped it down. The boat … Read more

I Might Cry

Everything has a beginning and an end and I was going to find one of the gazillion pithy quotes that states this simple fact. Instead I’ll talk about the sentiment behind it because the end of a big part of my life begins tomorrow when we travel to Washington to put our boat up for … Read more

Play Ball

My favorite season arrives at the end of March. Full of hoopla and hype, Major League Baseball takes over the sports channels, bringing crotch-scratching, spit-spewing, dirt-kicking behemoths right into our living rooms. And I love ‘em all. My team is the San Francisco Giants—winner of three World Series in five years. The last few years … Read more