Today J.Q. Rose is once again featuring my article ‘Photography As A Hobby’ on her website ‘Focus On Story’. As many of you know I am an avid photographer. Though writing is important to me, taking photographs comes in at…
A friend and I took an hour and a half road trip into central New Jersey the other day to visit Grounds For Sculpture, a 42 acre sculpture garden located on what used to be the New Jersey Fair Grounds.…
The Atlantic Ocean is only an hour and a half subway ride from where I live. The weather during the last couple of weeks in NYC had been miserably hot and humid. A friend invited my husband and I out…
This has been an exciting and rewarding week for me. My novel, Fish Kicker, is not only an ebook, it’s also now published as a paperback. I’ve been writing a long time and there’s been plenty of ups and downs…
The other day I visited the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan to see an amazing exhibit titled Crochet Coral Reef: Toxic Seas. There were over a dozen art pieces presented, each one a magnificent display created by crocheting. The…
My second novel, Pushing Water, will be hitting the market any day now! It’s been a long time coming. There for a while I didn’t think it would ever get finished. But one thing about writing is that if you keep…
By MARGARET MENDEL Well, today I got the final version of the cover for PUSHING WATER my novel due to be published later this year. There is still the publisher’s galley to read. I’ll use that time to edit a few…
By Margaret Mendel Just for the fun of it, a friend, Susan, and I decided to head over to the Whitehorse Tavern to see if we could pick up on the haunted vibes that were supposed to be hanging around…
It was Memorial Day weekend. According to the forecast the weather would be unpredictable. We didn’t care. We were headed upstate to spend the long holiday weekend with friends in an old farm house sitting in the middle of a densely…
BY MARGARET MENDEL It was a warmer than usual November afternoon when I exited the L Train subway station at 1st Ave and 14th Street where I was to meet up with Susan. We planned to walk to China Town…