Nov 14, 2018 | Happenings
My husband and I made 19 trips with a group called Road Scholar, a senior travel group that has adventures all over the world. We had a lot of fun adventures both together, and when I took a grandchild on one of their intergenerational trips. On five of those...
Oct 17, 2018 | Happenings
Years ago, on my 30th birthday, my grandmother presented me with a beautiful old cross made up of Bohemian garnets. Garnet is my birthstone. It was 150 years old according to the date on the back of the cross. I kept it in a safety deposit box as one jeweler told me...
Oct 14, 2018 | Happenings
Tomorrow I fly out to Asheville, North Carolina to attend another Road Scholar seminar. The topic is: The Women of Appalachia; Traditions, Stories, and Song. We will study the history of women in Appalachia, from the Cherokee to the early Scottish settlers. Centuries...
Sep 30, 2018 | Happenings
My husband loved birds. As a boy he raised a young red-tailed hawk as a pet. Its name was Beaky. Frank then graduated to pigeons and raised them at different times of his life. When we married and moved to Northern California he acquired a starting flock and then...
Aug 14, 2017 | Happenings, On Writing, Poetry
Had fun revising my poetry book, “Wings of the Wind” with White Glove Publishing through my agent, Joyce Hart. Took out some of the poems and added others that had been written more recently. The company that published the book before with all my friend Dixie...
