Pam Ripling
Today I renewed my vow to raise a bunch of money for the American Cancer Society. I’m ready to hit the ground running! Team Check ‘Em Out is poised to break our record this year by building our team, trying new ways to fundraise, restaurant nights, dessert sales, percentage donations, and good old fashioned bowling-alley-panhandling! [...]
Some of you know that besides my passion for serving education through the SCV Education Foundation and supporting the American Cancer Society through Relay For Life, I also serve of the board of Circle of Hope, Inc., a tireless group of warriors who support local breast cancer patients. One tiny way I can help is [...]
As shocking as it may seem, not all published authors support themselves on their royalties. I know, huh? Yeah, I was a little surprised, too, when I first discovered that little known fact. So, to answer the many questions I get about how I earn income between blockbusters, here’s the scoop: I make sure that [...]
Continue reading about My Other Life: Keeping Track of Money
These were taken between February 16 – 28 with my Blackberry. Not great quality but they record something Normally, I would blur out the license plate number, but this Beetle owner probably loves his vanity plate, and with good reason. I only snapped off one shot as I was strolling the swap meet, but you [...]
January 12, 2011 – Santa Paula, CA – The earliest of California’s 35+ lighthouses have protected its coastal waters for over 160 years, and are thus a big part of the state’s history. According to local So. Cal. author Pam Ripling (who also writes as Anne Carter), these iconic symbols of protection, guidance and times [...]
Continue reading about California’s Lighthouses: The History and the Mystery
Back in May, I blogged about my father and what a cool guy he was. I wish I’d known him longer. Wish I’d known him when he was a younger man. I think I take after him in some ways – I ponder, I reflect, I take forever to do the grocery shopping. So many [...]
May I have a drum roll please? Contest time! Jeepers, I had a lot of entrants. Have written all the names down on tiny fortune-cookie-sized papers and folded them up. Have dropped them into the beautiful ceramic bowl my son made in high school. Have stirred them. Have woken my teenaged daughter from her after-school [...]
And that’s because today is the wrap party for my two week long Blog Tour celebrating the release of CAPE SEDUCTION. For fun, my last stop is at my publisher’s website, and we’ve had conversation about, well, ME! Karen asked some great questions, and I’ve done my best to share my thoughts. I threw in [...]
He was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, in 1912. Today would be his 98th birthday. I couldn’t begin to write his biography. He led an interesting life, full of a myriad of vocations and locations. He was a thinker, above all. A design engineer by trade, he was forever inventing a better mousetrap. Aerospace, television [...]
