Nothing to rant about today. OMG, somebody take my temperature. (smile) Seriously, I think I have been so busy with productions at the local art center, I have not paid attention to the national news. I hardly pay attention to the local news, either. I never have the television on during the day, and only …
I am really excited to have a new Wednesday’s Guest here to share with us a bit of homespun philosophy. Roy Faubion is a retired radio broadcaster, and he has written a number of columns for newspapers throughout his professional career. Roy has agreed to share, from time to time, some of his “ponderings” as …
Since I spent the morning taking care of gardening chores and laundry, I was really late getting into my office and now it is way past noon and I’m just now trying to come up with an idea for the blog. Since none have come to me in the last ten minutes of staring at …
The Hardest Thing in This WorldNicole Eva Fraser Second Wind Publishing ISBN: 978-1938101595 (paperback)ASIN: B00G5LFLAC (for Kindle)Publication date: October 11, 2013248 pages BOOK BLURB: Sexy, smart-mouthed Melody Sawyer is an underachiever, a home health care nurse with good intentions and a chip on her shoulder. Her troubled daughter Renee recently dropped dead at age 24, …
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First I want to wish all the fathers a Happy Father’s Day. I know it is not until tomorrow, but I am doing posts early for the weekend, then I won’t be online much. This is an especially difficult Father’s Day for me and my kids as it is the first without my husband being …
This picture has nothing to do with the blog, other than the fact that I thought you might like something pleasant to look at before my rant for the day. Black cat is Harry, other one is Lily. They were watching a bunny that was having breakfast in my yard. I’m sure they thought the …
Grab a donut to go with your morning coffee, or tea, and settle back to find out how Carole Bellacera came to write Incense & Peppermints, her novel about a combat nurse in Vietnam. She has graciously accepted the invite to be today’s Wednesday’s Guest, so let’s make her feel welcome. While Carole is here, …
The adage, “Damned if you do and damned if you don’t” is most appropriate when thinking about the controversy over the recent prisoner swap in Afghanistan for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. In an article in The Atlantic, David Rhode gave his perspective, having been a prisoner in Afghanistan at one point, too. The bottom line …
Incense & PeppermintsCarole Bellacera File Size: 656 KBPrint Length: 456 pagesPage Numbers Source ISBN: 149735563XSold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B00K1MSANG BOOK BLURB: On a snowy February day in 2011, 62-year-old Cindy Sweet receives a Facebook message from a dead man—Warrant Officer Ryan Quinlan who supposedly died in Vietnam forty years earlier. He’d been …
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When my sister told me she had to pay $4,000 for a pill to help her body deal with the effects of chemo she was receiving for breast cancer, I thought we had a bad phone connection. Surely it didn’t cost $4,000 for one little pill. To my dismay, I found out it really does. …
