Summer Quilts and Lessons Learned
Part of the joy of spending summers in Chautauqua, New York, is listening to lectures. So many lectures! This week we’re exploring health care. Today, for instance, I learned about new research into mental illness, a particular interest after spending time working with patients in a mental health center years ago. This afternoon I’ll attend…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Ripple Effect Images
One small change can have an enormous impact. Just ask the photographers behind Ripple Effect Images. Last week I heard an amazing lecture here at Chautauqua by Annie Griffiths, a National Geographic photographer and the founder of Ripple Effect Images, an organization that reaches out to impoverished girls and women around the world. Her incredible photographs were…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Book Websites You Have to Love
Welcome to Fiction Friday. I started Fiction Friday so I would have the opportunity to excerpt my books and those of some of my friends and colleagues. But I’m between books to share with you today, so instead I thought I would share some of my favorite websites about books. Of course it makes sense…
Read MoreBook Signing Fun at the Local Barber Shop.
So, as I’m leaving the grounds of our summer place, after I’ve already flashed my gate pass and been waved out, I remember: “You idiot, you don’t have your camera!” Of course I didn’t have my camera. As usual I had waited until the last minute to get ready for the six o’clock book signing in…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: The Singing Doctor
Isn’t it wonderful to run across a physician who, in spite of long hours and stressful conditions, really cares about his patients. This doctor cares so much that he sings to the babies he delivers. Check out this inspirational man… Post by WGXA.tv.
Read MoreFiction Friday: Death By Devil’s Breath
Welcome to author Casey Daniels a.k.a. Kylie Logan. Since one of my good friends and brainstorming partners Casey Daniels/Kylie Logan’s been here in the past showcasing some of her novels, I thought I might interview her a bit today so you can find out more about the different series she has written and the sleuths who…
Read MoreAnd the New Title is. . .
Due to company and a husband who’s needed lots of TLC while he recovers from doing something insidious to his back, my Tuesday blog will be short and sweet this week. I finally have a title! The fourth book in the Goddesses Anonymous series is. . . The Color of Light. And just in case…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Mother & Son Courage
What an incredibly inspiring story this is. Linda and Timmy Bannon are mother and son who suffer from the same genetic abnormality that has left both of them with no arms. But they’ve learned how to live with their deformity with acceptance and even joy. Witnessing their resilience certainly makes it more difficult for me…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Banned Books
Welcome to Fiction Friday. Over the past month I’ve featured book lists here, one made up of summer reading selections chosen by my readers, one with bestseller and most popular lists, and last week the 2014 reading list of the historic Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. Today here’s another to share with you. Have you ever had to fight…
Read MoreRadical Changes: Finding Time To Do What You Love
“Oh, I want to write a book, too, if I can ever find the time.” There’s probably not a writer anywhere who hasn’t heard this when we tell a stranger what we do. Everybody wants to write a novel. Everybody is absolutely certain he or she will, just as soon as the time miraculously appears. But truthfully, is…
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