Flowers AND Five Cleopatras!!

Yesterday was a wonderful day!!I finally nailed down the first chapter of my new book.I received a breathtaking bouquet of flowers from my wonderful publishers, in celebration of the starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, for “McKettrick’s...

Skater’s Waltz

Yesterday afternoon, I was privileged to attend a segment of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, right here in Spokane. What a spectacle of beauty, grace and physical fitness it was.The ice was smooth as glass, and the skaters, magical in their glittering, fabulous...

Hallmark Moments

I’m a sucker for those Hallmark commercials on TV, especially the ones they show around the holidays–the little boy doing show and tell with various ornaments to mark stages in his life–the man with the lantern, hiking through the snow to stand on a...

How I Spent My Sunday

I spent all of yesterday vegging in my bathrobe, with the fire going and the cats and dogs nearby, and it was heaven. I read “The Lady in the Palazzo” and relived my own happy times in Italy. I savored the delectable Italian cousine without gaining an...

Friday—Again

Today, estimates from a plumber and a flooring company. (The campaign against carpets continues.) I’ve pretty much accepted that revising and polishing a completed manuscript will take precedence over writing a new one.Not that I’m sad about that. But...

Slow Start This Morning!

It’s snowing.This has been one of those weeks where life kept happening while I was making other plans. Nothing bad, certainly–just busy things. A newspaper interview on Monday, lunch with Mom on Tuesday, picking up my new car on Wednesday, and today,...

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