When Pink is Mauve

When Pink is Mauve

The young female protagonist in my WIP struggles with the impending divorce of her mother and father. She knows her father is extremely predjudiced against what were called “coloreds” in 1967, but he’s her Daddy and she loves him for all of the good...
We’re All Colored

We’re All Colored

It’s 1967 and the young protagonist in my WIP gets a visit from her school principal who happens to be black. In those days the polite way of referring to a person of African heritage was to call them “colored.” While this scene is completely...
Wishes for Dishes

Wishes for Dishes

One of my mother’s fondest memories of me as a young child occurred when she was scouting for Autumn Leaf dishes. It was 1962, we lived in Ontario, California, and I was about three years old. She had loaded my two sisters and me into our big, lime green, 1954...
Launch Party! All About the Bronte Sisters

Launch Party! All About the Bronte Sisters

Registration to my book launch party is now open in Zoom. I hope you’ll join me in celebrating these fascinating women who wrote novels far ahead of their time. We’ll have a reading, discussion, some Bronte trivia, a Bronte scavenger hunt and some other...
This is Cloud Coffee

This is Cloud Coffee

During the early weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown, social media blew up with photos and recipes for a new way to make sweet, frothy, luscious iced coffee. Being a coffee-lover, I immediately looked up the recipe. The method is so simple, the presentation so impressive,...
Words and Crepes in Southern Pines

Words and Crepes in Southern Pines

I left Southern Pines on a wet, gray day, after a week-long writing residency at the stately Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. Departing on a day like this is preferable to leaving on a sunny day when the blue skies beckon walks in the gardens and...