The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity and creativity inspire others in the blogosphere. I am delighted to have been aw...

I participated in a writing round robin with the authors of the Prism Book Group. A round robin has nothing to do with the bird of the same...

When Babci makes up her mind, there's no stopping her. She insisted upon buying a shirt for hubby and a blouse for me. We did not believ...

Hubby and I were wed on August 7th, 1976. Tomorrow is our thirty-sixth anniversary. Happy Anniversary to us! How time flies.

I found this recipe in our local newspaper six years ago and it has become a favorite, probably because I love lima beans, but the feta chee...

Today I am offering a special feature! One of my author friends, Jenn Nixon, has had a new book released, Lucky's Charm. Jenn’s love o...

It has been a little over a year since I uploaded Prince of the Mist to the Kindle platform. Afterward, I uploaded the book to Smashwords ...

Above is the overview of the stats from my Facebook fan page. The graph goes up and down depending on whether I manage to snag someone's...

There's me on the left, mixing paints, which is something I still love to do. My brother is sitting on the floor with my sister. In the ...

I noticed something new on the Barnes & Noble website when I went to check out the status of my books. There's a clever little icon ...

I believe all of us need to know certain Life Skills. I taught my daughters to cook, do laundry, and clean toilet bowls. They met other stud...

My father was never a seafaring man. Yes, he traveled to the South Pacific during World War II in a troop ship, and he could row our rowboat...

I spent quite a bit of time yesterday working on my new website. It is plain and simple, which is the way I generally like things to be. Le...

Here's a view of the newsletter I send out sporadically to my fans using MailChimp. If you go to Summer Scuttlebutt you can read the e...

That's me, age 24, half-way up the Pyramid of the Moon in Mexico. I gave up climbing at that point. In 1974, I went to Mexico with my si...

Hubby and I went on a Road Scholar tour of Great Camp Sagamore. This was our third Road Scholar tour. We've enjoyed each of the progra...

This is a photo of my paternal grandfather. He lived to be 86. His mother came to this country from Ireland as a domestic, and for the rest ...

Here's a very young me overlooking Florence, Italy. A long time ago, I signed up for summer study in Italy. I got six college credits, ...

We had one car when I was young and Dad used it to go to work. He worked in Jersey City, but he spent most of his career on the graveyard sh...