Here’s another scene for my book (maybe!). This is true and so true about my mother! I love thinking back to all the birthday gifts she gave us when we got older. The older we got, the funnier it got. My dad once estimated there were “at least 250” gifts under the Christmas tree. Birthdays […]
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Mom’s Handwriting
I just had my friend Barb mail me a Christmas card my mother sent her years ago. It’s a TREASURE! If you have an old card or letter my mom sent you and would like to pass it back to me, I would treasure it. Please let me know. Seeing her handwriting and her thoughts […]
Book excerpt: The Wedding Reception
Lainey entered the wedding reception with high expectations. She was overdue. The year had brought her enough angst to fuel a college kegger. Tonight, she had a babysitter, a hotel room, dancing shoes, and little doubt she would even the score. She found her name place card in the most delightful of places: at the […]
Book Excerpt: Building a Home
Here, an excerpt from my novel and work-in-progress, Monday Night Bike Club: They built their house, officially, in the middle of nowhere. They spent hours after work, after college classes, before breakfast and during lunch working on the house. It was his idea, a terrible one she thought. Her dad had looked at Lainey and said, “Your […]
Book Excerpt: Birth of son
Here, an excerpt from my novel and work-in-progress: Her mother had bought her a fluffy red robe with yellow and brown and white kitties embroidered on the sleeves and back. She would wear it as she paced the hospital floors, waiting for her first son to be born. She would wear it later, when the […]