I've been working on the book about our ALS adventure.  I'd really just got into the part about Pat's fabulous chair when something popped up on Facebook that illustrates it much better than I can write. First the excerpt: The most important piece of equipment Pat...

In the old days, specifically during the plague, some poor people were boarded up inside their houses and left to die. Now we just access the internet and there you go, you can have your far distant grandchild read to you. The story, according to her, was about a fat...

I've not been posting much, or really at all, because I've been busy working on a book about our experience with ALS.  Last week, during the first of our two week shutdown I was reading Facebook as was everyone else when they weren't watching Netflix or Disney+.   ...

My daughter sent me a text they were slaughtering the turkeys.  It's that time of year, when after a year of fun and fellowship, they are now going to roast and eat their companions. And they feel pretty good about it.  It's important for them to like the things they...

After a two month hiatus due to lack of  internet connectivity up in Maine and a surfeit of emotional connectivity back home, I'm back where I belong. My little cabin in the Maine woods reinforced my decision NOT to be a fan of scary books and I enjoyed sitting out on...

Thanks to EVERYONE who came to the first Literary Event at our wonderful downtown Persnickety Books which happened to also be my first ever book signing.  I don't know if I was "glowing" (southern ladies glow you know, never sweat)  from nerves or heat, but either way...

"A great story told in a style reminiscent of Jan Karon, Miss Read and Alexander McCall Smith. It boasts a wonderful cast of characters, each worthy of their own tale...do I see a series??? This is a not a children’s book. It deals with real life issues without shying...