Today is shaping up to be a good day! Yesterday ended up being a semi-disaster. Everything that could go wrong with my sewing went wrong. My day of sewing ended with me shutting everything down and heading to my office to write a few pages in Book 9 of the Ruby & Nolan series. It beats the hell out of fixing it with a hammer!
Today, I am going to take time to relax and recharge my batteries before I tackle anything more challenging, anything more difficult than cleaning the kitchen. I might paint the bird house. I can’t go wrong! If I look out the window and see a dozen birds laughing so hard they fall off the fence, I will know it was a success!
Well, unless a few more Republicans wake up, by the 4th, we will have the “Big Beautiful Bill passed and will start sinking into a Third World Country, and poverty for all but the already now wealthy billionaires. It is a shame that a beautiful idea like we had will go down in defeat without a whimper! If women had had a hand in writing the Constitution, it might have had a different theme. There is still time to change, but the time runs short, and it will take some strong actions, more than words, to defeat the fascist organization that has seized our once beautiful FREE Country!
I hope you all have a safe, happy Fourth of July! I am going to enjoy some family time and try to relax. The plan is to eat tons of ribs, play many cribbage games, and laugh long and hard at Dad Jokes.
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We will talk again, later….
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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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