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November 2019 FREE BOOK!
We tried to give away this book last February, but, because it was not claimed by the winner, we get to give it away again! This time of year, I long for those hearty stews, soups, roasts, and homemade desserts known as “comfort food.” The COMFORT FOOD COOKBOOK (edited by Karen K. Will) is packed…
Puppy Love/ Great Pyrenees!
In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula where I live, farmers have a tough life. The growing season in a good year is a mere three months, often less, with frosts lasting into June and sometimes starting up again in mid-August, but we do grow very high quality hay, and also have dairy farms and some sheep farms….
Puppy Love/ Boston Terrier!
As a child, my mother always had a Boston Terrier. When I was little, one of her dogs was still living, and every visit to her father – my “Granddaddy” – was also a visit with Rowdy, a rather large and grumpy brindle-and-white Boston Terrier. Rowdy loved to watch television and was particularly engrossed by…
Corsets & Lace: Haute Couture – The Victorian Age
My current novel-in-progress is entitled GILT. It’s set during the 1870s in New York City. I’m definitely a country girl (actually a backwoods girl), but the first time I visited New York (I was seventeen.), I fell in love with that huge, gritty (grittier then than now), glorious, amazing metropolis. In subsequent visits, both on…
FARM
Wild Word Friday! When I was a child, one of my very favorite things was visiting my paternal grandparents at their FARM. They had a mean rooster that would chase you if you ventured too close to the chicken coop. Their big black horse would eat an apple right out of your very flat open…
again……..just WOW!!!
Beautiful!