Women are some of the most caring, compassionate, nurturing creatures on the planet. They can also be the most cunning, conniving, backstabbing beings in the world. All are capable of great drama, often unnecessarily. In a long career in which opportunities for professional women were limited, I have known more than a fair share of…
Month: May 2012
A Fond Farewell to the Queen of Disco
The Queen of Disco, Donna Summer has died at the age of 63 in Florida. According to the website TMZ, Summer had been battling cancer, although no cause of death was immediately available. She certainly kept her struggle quiet. Most of her fans were unaware of her illness and only knew that she was hard…
Kids These Days…
“Kids these days have no respect.” “My dad would have whipped my ass for that.” “When I was a kid….” Two recent events, and the reaction of adults on social media got me thinking about this. First, the now infamous dad shooting his daughter’s laptop after her facebook rants were discovered and last week the…
Just for the Halibut
Yes, yes. I know. Old joke. But. I have to share an absolutely delicious outcome involving fresh halibut that I picked up at the market yesterday and served for dinner last night. First thing you need to know about me is that I often do not plan menus in any great detail and have to…
Graduation
[Note to Readers — As I have been writing the biographies of my characters who will be appearing in the novel series, I thought it would be fun to create vignettes that reveal some of their back story and share them here. At the moment, I don’t plan to include these in a novel, although…
Where’s My Hat?! It’s Derby Day!
I grew up in Indiana, Indianapolis to be exact. The month of May was always an exciting time for my brother and me. Every year we went to time trials, practices and of course the race itself. (That would be the Indianapolis 500. THE race.) The sound of Indy cars whizzing around a track, no…
Playing Nice in the Writing Pool
As we embark on this journey to write a series of novels together, we are becoming more and more aware of the challenges. There are a few universal obstacles; time constraints, writers block, finding a market, developing an audience, making plot devices unique and interesting for our characters and potential readers…..the list is long. We…