My childhood home was a little lopsided. In fact, it was WAY lopsided in favor of the females. Poor Dad was on his own. My mom and my sisters and I didn’t offer much in the way of fishing fellows (“Eww… I’m not touching that worm!”), baseball buddies (“The Cincinnati Reds’ are on the radio AGAIN?”), or football fanatics […]
This blog evolved from the publication of my first novel, THE BEEF PRINCESS OF PRACTICAL COUNTY. It’s a middle grade novel for readers age 9 to adult. It was released in hardcover in April 2009 by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books. The paperback release is set for Summer 2010. I needed […]
This morning, by habit, I woke at the usual Monday AM hour and rolled over. My groggy brain somehow remembered that today is Labor Day, a Congressional gift to hard-working Americans in 1894, and I rolled back over and snoozed another hour. (Okay, I didn’t actually pull the year 1894 out of my groggy morning […]
