I am a car buff. I’ll admit it. Most women aren’t, I suppose, but blame my dad. Or my hubby. Or the fact that I was a tomboy. If you’ve read my books, you know that my vehicles are dead-on accurate. I don’t have the wrong engine in the wrong model or anything like that [...]
Have you ever purchased a DVD of a popular movie and seen “Director’s Cut” on the menu screen? Usually, this is an opportunity to watch the movie as the director intended, not as the marketing gurus who test the film on audiences have it edited for theatrical release (read: Shortened. Audiences as a whole seem [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I was in the Micanopy area and dropped by the home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. I’ve been a fan of MKR since 7th grade when I first read The Yearling. But did you know she also authored a cookbook? Right there in her kitchen is a first [...]
Born in 1760 to a family of three brothers and three sisters, and descended from one of the original Massachusetts colonists, Priscilla Alden, Deborah Sampson was destined to lead a life unlike any of her contemporary counterparts would ever dream of entering into. Far from idyllic, Deborah’s childhood, peppered by poverty, a father who abandoned [...]
Well, yesterday was one of those birthdays. You know, the kind that end in a zero. The kind that signal the end of another decade of living. THE KIND THAT MAKE YOU FEEL OLD!
Celebrating a birthday beats the alternative, though, so I won’t let it depress me. At least I’m not pushing up daisies yet, [...]
No, she doesn’t wear a beard, but that “Jolly Old Elf” she’s married to does–a very long and luxurious white beard. Nor does she have any basis in legend or folklore. Actually, their marriage has been a short one– only a mere 119 years. Santa was given a wife in 1889 by Katherine Lee Bates [...]
While talking with my sister about weight loss products and dieting, I made the remark, “I wish I had the old, original Weight Watcher’s Plan, the one Jean Nidetch developed with the help of physicians and nutritionists, back before she sold the franchise to Heinz Corporation.” I forgot about the conversation until days later, when [...]
Perhaps because it took 72 years, 18 presidencies and three wars to get us that right? More importantly, because the 15th Amendment to the Constitution is written in the blood, sweat and suffering of a lot of women who fought to secure our right to vote. We owe them, ourselves and our country, and women [...]
Have you been watching the Olympics? I have. Every four years. (And the winter Olympics every other four years. You know what I mean.) I love them, but of course, if I watched all of them, I wouldn’t have gotten anything accomplished the last two weeks. But I did knock myself out to watch the [...]