Category: At Home

• At Home Author-y Stuff Sunday Morning Coffee

  Socializing in the Deep End of the Marketing Pool

  Helllloooooooo! I’m floating about, here, bobbing around with lots of iceberg-type piles of “to do” lists. Sky Dancers’ Draft number two is with the editor. It’s pub date is September 15th. Lots to do between then and now to get it published. I began a new novel that I’m really…

  July 13, 2014
• At Home Sunday Morning Coffee

  I’ll Have My Coffee With Fog, Please

  On July 4th, the colored cloud display and accompanying booms were quite splendid. It was touch and go. For a while there, the forecast was for clear skies. However, the fog rolled in and the tradition continued. I’ve been living with friendly fog since 1980 when I moved from the…

  July 6, 2014
• Travelling Trip Preps

  Goin’ Solo

  I’m heading off to Ashland, Oregon tomorrow where I’ll be hooking up with two of my high school buddies for a mini-reunion. Ashland’s a cool town, funky and artistic. It’s the home of the Shakespeare Festival. Plays, plays and more plays. My two girls friends and I are planning on…

  June 26, 2014
• At Home Sunday Morning Coffee Travelling

  That Funny Feeling

  I dropped my son off at the airport this morning. He’s on a 10-day adventure and I’m left with a funny feeling. It marks a change in my life. A shift. Some people call it the empty nest syndrome. Whatever… I called my brother. He has three daughters, the last…

  June 22, 2014
• At Home Story TIme

  Links to The PeaceKeeper Corps

  Good morning! Here’s how you can purchase the novel, either as a paperback or as a Kindle ebook.  Since the book is “hot off the press,” I still need to contact Amazon’s customer service to combine the two books onto one page. For the paperback:   For the Kindle ebook:…

  May 25, 2014
• Sunday Morning Coffee Trip Preps

  Countdown to Travel

  Good morning, Peeps!  Have you been enjoying your Memorial Day long weekend?  Mr. Al and I’ve been making lists of things-to-do-before-we-leave. Have you noticed that the closer a vacation gets, the more you realize how badly you need one? I’ll tell you what, I have definitely earned this one. Big…

  May 25, 2014