To Give or Not to Give

To Give or Not to Give

As all of us are keenly aware, there are a lot of homeless on the streets! They are on almost every street intersection with their cardboard signs. Sometimes they are smoking, and I feel that at the price of cigarettes these days, if they can afford that, they don’t...
Visiting Family

Visiting Family

I hopped on a plane from San Diego and flew to Florida to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with my daughter and family. They have a beautiful rural setting in the country with an acre, wetlands on each side, and the beautiful St. John’s River flowing past. My son-in-...
Keeping up with Maya II

Keeping up with Maya II

I discovered a magic toy. It’s a device that produces a little red laser dot. Maya goes bananas when I press the button and will frantically pursue the elusive dot all over the living room with woofs and whimpers. She digs at the carpet if I leave it in one place too...
Keeping Up with Maya I

Keeping Up with Maya I

As many of you know, I have a little dog named Maya and she is now 4-1/2 years old. We have a routine in that after my short afternoon nap, we go for our walk in the neighborhood. If I tarry too long (sleeping) she changes positions on the bed with great effort...
Writing Children’s Books

Writing Children’s Books

What a change in my genre! I write historical fiction, that takes hours of research, right? Now I’ve gotten engrossed in this new field and particularly my little character, Mama Mouse. I found a wonderful illustrator and we work back and forth until the characters...
Watching Nature

Watching Nature

I don’t like spiders! That is a given, but there is a little brown spider that fascinates me. She spins an intricate web between my rubber tree and the edge of the roof every evening. I watch her work away, going round and round. Then she sits in the middle of the...
Neighbors

Neighbors

We have a very nice neighborhood. Young families walk with strollers, several senior citizens take a morning or afternoon stroll, and at different times of the day, the dog walkers are out! It’s so nice to greet people, let the dogs sniff each other, engage in small...
Picture Books

Picture Books

My genre was never picture books for children! I wrote historical fiction and other Christian fiction. With my grandchildren grown and at present no hope of great-grandchildren, it didn’t seem to beckon me. However, when my Christmas poem about a little mouse raised...
Baja Song

Baja Song

I guess I’m in a poetry mood this month! I always thought the desert was pretty barren of life, but our days in Baja showed me differently. The gusts of sand roll past the alkali heath, and the jackrabbit hurries away. The iguana pulls down the shades of his eyes, as...