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I was going to begin this piece with, “Cancer steals another of my heroes…” but I didn’t want the focus to be on either me or on cancer. This insidious… Read more »

Okay, Mary Cunningham tagged me to write 6 “book” things about myself. I liked her old-timey photo so added one of my own, taken at Big Bear Lake in 19xx…… Read more »

Friday morning I accompanied a good friend to an imaging center as her “bosom buddy.” While waiting for her test, we sat a comfortable waiting room (cookies to die for)… Read more »

on my birthday cake… Well, I don’t really want to talk about my birthday, except to say that I’ve felt more loved this year. This is the first birthday I’ve… Read more »

Okay, last week I saw someone else doing this and I thought, “she stole my idea!” But the reality of it is, she blogged it first, and she doesn’t know… Read more »

1. I am very impressed by your bio, and enjoyed the stories about your grandfather (see: www.graceehowell.com.) You’ve been a teacher, a librarian, a quilt maker and a Master Gardener,… Read more »

Barely 48 hours until we lift off from Los Angeles Int’l en route to London-Heathrow. I am mostly packed already, and am antsy to get going! When you plan a… Read more »

Last fall I wrote a short story as the result of a contest held by Echelon Press for its readers. When it debuted, I was immersed in the edits for… Read more »

Anyone remember the Beach Boys singing about those girls? Next month, Echelon author Dana Taylor and I will be those girls! Well, not actually *on* the beach… and we don’t… Read more »

Six months without a post. Just sitting on Blogger’s servers, dormant, silent…passwordless. Yes, it’s true. I somehow got tangled up in the move to Google log in and I was… Read more »