Soooo excited about this new design for the Heaven and Earth series I’m writing. Can you spot all the symbols of the Greek gods? It’s funny I’m getting into this new series and the research has been relentless! I’m eager to get started but every time I’m about to get started another branch comes up. I’m …
So, I was writing my welcome page today and thinking about springtime. The Sea Archer, coming out in the fall, is about the descendants of Apollo, Poseidon, and Demeter. Many people know the story of Demeter albeit through Persephone and Hades but if not here’s one simplified version. Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, harvest, fertility …
Well, I sincerely hope that everyone out there had a blissful holiday season!?! We had a fabulous time! As I watch my kids get older and have their own ideas on celebrations and with whom to celebrate, I’m just thankful that they hung out with their parents as long as they did. Granted, there really …
My kids, Paisley and Charlie, and my surrogate kids Jesse and Natalie, and their friend Daniel, were all at the Route 91 Concert, in Las Vegas, last weekend. It’s been only a week since the people at that concert lost their lives, were wounded or lost their sense of peace within their hearts, minds and …
GRADUATION 2018 Ah, bands playing pomp and circumstance, caps, gowns, tassels and diplomas. Sitting on bleachers feeling your butt go numb and praying if the speakers’ speech is long, let it at least be entertaining. I watched one of my son’s best friends graduate a couple of weekends ago from Gonzaga and I felt like …
The Girl on the Train, written by Paula Hawkins, is a truly gripping story of A a woman named Rachel in dire need of help. A series of catastrophic and life-shifting events propel her into depression and alcoholism. As she rides the train every day she watches other people’s lives out the window. A little …
Last Friday I went to my first full day training as a volunteer for Hospice of Northwest I came away inspired and energized! It was about ten and a half years ago when hospice first entered my life. Chuck, my father-in-law, had been diagnosed for the last time with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. His doctors told us …
I know you are not supposed to talk about politics on your website. It’s like talking about money, religion, or affairs, you’re just not supposed to do it. Along with the campaigning, debates, and this election, who wants to hear another ridiculous word about it? I certainly don’t but also know I’m finishing up a …
Diamonds on the Water by Jeny Heckman Diamonds on the water, that light beneath the sky Waves of grace and wonder, too swiftly roll on by What permeates the air, the smell of sea and sunshine That open taste of freedom, today shall be just mine As the hour starts to darken, and shadows seem …
The Lit Ladies are beginning to read Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk: A Novel by Kathleen Rooney Below is the synopsis from the website, read along with us! She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy’s to become the highest paid advertising …
