Lately I’ve been doing a great deal of work on PUSHING WATER, a novel in revision, and getting the final drafts of FISH KICKER ready for its publication that’s coming in March 2014. Most of the day I sit at…
A BRIEF REPRIEVE FROM THE WRITING LIFE
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I’M INTERVIEWED BY HELENA FAIRFAX
Today, November 5, I am interviewed by Helena Fairfax a lovely British romance writer, an insatiable book lover and a crazy rescue dog owner. She has graciously opened her website to me and I’d like to invite you to virtually…
ANOTHER DAY OF SUMMER
The sky was a brilliant blue. A soft, cool breeze gently rustled the leaves of the geranium plants on our terrace. What a perfect day for a stroll along a boardwalk, and we jumped on a subway to take the…
DRAGON BOAT RACING IN FLUSHING MEADOW CORONA PARK
What a great day for the Dragon Boat Festival. I knew the bright sun would reflect beautifully off Flushing Lake, the light summer breeze would not hamper the flow of the boats, and the comfortable temperatures of the last couple…
STORM WATCHING AND MY ENCOUNTER WITH A GIANT FROG
I’ve been a storm watcher since I was a little girl and the other day NYC had a real drencher. I knew it was going to be something to take notice of when the sky turned a sickly grey-green and…
STREET THEATER
We’re now in Madrid and so far from everything that we’ve seen and done, I’ll have enough material to blog for a long time. The experiences just keep coming, with something delightfully unexpected happening nearly every time we turn a…
WINTER WALK IN THE PARK
Our grandson, Devon, was staying the weekend and that meant we awakened early each morning, usually before the sun comes up. I’m a light sleeper and when I hear the padding of his ever growing feet coming down the hall,…
2013 NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN’S ORCHID SHOW
I don’t go every year. It’s not that I don’t like orchids, there always seems to be so much going on in my life when the show is scheduled. But I try to make the New York Botanical Garden’s Orchid…
Happy Lunar New Year and a Snow Storm
Last night the east coast, from New Jersey all the way up and into Canada, got a winter blast of snow. NYC only got about 5 inches of the white stuff, but farther north they got quite a bit more…
IT’S A NEW YEAR, IT’S A NEW DAY
There always seems to be so much going on. Any way that’s what I say when I realize that large gaps of time have passed and I’ve lost touch with friends. But it’s a new year, not that I’m about…