I do sewing for friends for fun and to keep my hands busy.
Today, I cut about 16 inches off a dress and hemmed it for a nice lady. When I called her to tell her it was done, she was surprised, as she had brought it to me yesterday. I am not always able to complete an item, but it is always nice when they are happy with the job. I try to do the job like I am doing it for myself.
I also repaired two American Flags that the wind was making a mess out of the hems. And in between those, I worked on two pairs of pants for Hubby. He deserves a little TLC. When I came home after the stroke, he waited on me cheerfully. In addition to preparing meals for me, he did the laundry and dishes. It feels so good to be back closer to my pre-stroke self. My typing is nearly as good as it was before, of course; I wasn’t a speed typist anyway! It is good to be able go get back to my writing. I am close to finishing book 9 of the Ruby & Nolan series. I hope to get several sequels done that are knocking on my head, asking, “When??”
I was having so much fun that when Shirl came in to check on me, I realized he wasn’t on break, but had done work. Woops, what for dinner? tonight it is tacos! Shirl is cooking and I should hurry and at least shred the cheese.
Well, this was short, but you know how time flies when you are having fun.
Will talk again soon. I hope you have a good day, too!
All my books are published with Draft2Digital and distributed to the following: Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Everand, Smashwords, Tolino OverDrive, bibliotheca, Baker & Taylor, BorrowBox, Hoopla, Vivlio, Palace Marketplace, Odilo, Gardners, Amazon.
I will be posting about the 50% sale on all my books next month, which is very soon!
Take care, and I’ll talk to you again soon.
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Biography
Creating worlds, characters, and wielding power like a madwoman, making my characters happy, sad, angry, and some of them with no redeeming qualities. I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I sometimes laugh out loud when I am writing a scene, and I have been known to cry when one of my favorites has to die.
I am a left-handed Gemini, what do you expect?
Reading bedtime stories to my two children until they fell asleep or until they just told me to go away, was fun. Making up wild stories for my grandchild, and creating Halloween costumes from Cowboys to a Dragon, was another favorite thing to do. I missed that so much when they were grown, that I started writing.
My yearly newsletters frequently were drafted third-person by my Love Birds, Miranda our motorhome, and by Sir Fit the White Knight, our faithful Honda.
Throughout the years, some of my creative talents centered around writing letters of complaint expressing my displeasure with services or products. One crucial, at least to my Son, was a note to our local school bus driver petitioning her to allow him back on the bus. He was kicked off for making an obscene gesture at his buddy. I reminded her that it was not directed at her, and that “obscenity can be in the eye of the beholder,” kids use that gesture as a greeting. He rode the bus until he graduated.
I loved driving my English teacher crazy. Leaving a “continued next week” at the end of my five handwritten pages required each week. He was one of many people that suggested I “do something about my writing.”
I graduated from the School of Hard Knocks at the top of my class.
After 30 years, in the trenches as a Real Estate Professional, I have found that truth is stranger than fiction. My books are filled with characters I met in that profession. Their names were changed to protect the guilty. Others were from people we met traveling around the country in Miranda, our Motorhome.
I am married nearly 60 years to the love of my life, Shirl, and partner-produced two exceptionally talented children, and one grandchild who is our pride and joy.
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