After Tammy and Joe's visit on my birthday weekend last month, Tammy mentioned that I'd be sharing our garage sale finds and the recipes for the dishes I made while she and Joe were in Missouri for my birthday, so as promised, here's that post. I'm still, almost a month later, basking in the memories of our celebration. Tammy and I lined up our finds on the dining table after we got home from … [Read more...]

Today is the first day of my last week in my current decade. It's honestly a little hard to believe that I'm as ancient as I am. On Friday I'll enter the decade that I've always thought of as "officially OLD." Ouch! But I'm not going to fret. I did that my last decade and it turned out to be for no good reason. On my 20th birthday I was a newlywed living in New York with Ken, but we had … [Read more...]

One of the things I did on my recent research trip to Saint Simons and Jekyll Islands was visit local grocery stores. Yes, we needed groceries for our camper, but those trips were also pure research. After all, my characters will need groceries and if I write a scene set in a grocery store, I'll need to know what store that would be on this island in the South, what that store looks like on the … [Read more...]