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Join Me for a Virtual Library Visit From my Living Room!
I’m delighted to announce a virtual library event via Zoom, hosted by the Wood Dale Public Library of Wood Dale, Illinois. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, August 11 at 7 p.m. Central Time. Since I always get the math wrong on time zones, I’ll let you figure that out for where you live. I’ll…
Heart Breaker
I love the story about the elderly Athabascan woman who was asked how to make moosehide moccasins. Her reply? “Well, first you kill a moose.” In other words, have a seat. This is going to take a while. When I’m asked, “How do you write a novel?” My answer is, “Well, first you break a heart.” And not just any…
Your Life & Mine: Small Treasures
Once upon a time, when my husband and I were almost 22 years old and had been married nearly 3 years (Wow, that’s young.), I gave birth to our first child, a beautiful baby girl we named Koral Kristine. My doctor immediately noticed that something wasn’t “right” about our baby. She wasn’t crying normally and…
European Research Trip – Croatia!
One of our guides describes the shape of Croatia as that of a bird flying. Check out the purple image on the map, and you’ll see her description is accurate, with one “wing” of Croatia lying along the Adriatic Sea and the other slanting inland to follow the Danube River. As I mentioned in my…
NOV. FREE BOOKS!
I thought our two November Free Books(!) should be Christmas-y since our winners will receive their books in December. Here they are… SNOW DAY by Billy Coffey. From the cover summary: “Awakened by radio broadcasts urging the residents of a small Virginia town to take a snow day rather than travel to school and work,…