Flora Beach Burlingame Exciting things are happening! I’ve been working away on a new book. This one with the same protagonist (Great Grandfather Stevenson) in later years in Iowa (1890s–early 1900s) when he championed woman suffrage. My son and I traveled to Shenandoah and Waterloo, Iowa, in April of 2017 to check out the communities where the Reverend …
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Moving on
Here we are at the close of 2017–a year of adjustment without my husband who took his last breath on December 28, 2016. I have done a lot of traveling to visit family members and meet three little great grandchildren newly born. Determined to get back in the writing groove, I explored the state of …
Changes and Forging Ahead
Yes, there have been many changes indeed since my last post. We no longer live in Mariposa, California, on our property with a view but are now Washingtonians. This is actually a homecoming as my husband was raised in this beautiful state and I lived here for a couple of years before meeting him, marrying, and …
Writing Away
I am busy writing the “sequel” to Charcoal and Chalk though readers shouldn’t expect it to be a continuation of the lives of the freed slaves taught by John Ogilvie. Unfortunately, family documents shed no further light on his Texas students. The new book picks up in John’s life during the late 1890s and into …
A Disappointment, But We Carry On!
Alas, the book signing in Galveston was not to be due to a family medical emergency. I have promised the great folks at the Galveston Bookshop and the Rosenberg Library it will still happen. No date set yet. In the meantime, I have discovered a great outlet–book clubs. Because of the significant topic of Charcoal …
Keeping At It
Every writer has an excuse for not writing–some of those delays tumble onto the next like dominos until it is evident the would-be writer is not a writer at all–simply a wannabe. After years of a strict writing schedule, then taking a breather between newspaper work and the completion of a book, I almost fell …
Summer Trips
Okay, I’ve been gone so the blog has been ignored. Where have I been? Washington State–west and east–two different trips. The first trek was to Redmond where we visited various family members–a highlight being the high school graduation of our granddaughter. She now has her first paying job to help finance a college education at …
Mariposa’s tragic fire
In May, eight businesses in our historic mountain town burned to nothing but rubble. The Arts Council lost precious works of local artists; the Pizza Factory walls of local sports figures and events from over the years, and the Windows on the World Book store its entire inventory–and yes, copies of my book, hardly worth …
Getting it out there
Torrents of much needed rain today–a good time to update the blog. Still selling books. Willow Brige in Oakhurst sold the ones I left on consignment so I brought more over. Also, A Book Barn in Clovis now has several copies to sell. This is an awesome store! Shelves full of books, each section well …
Keeping At It
Back from Texas and Southern Califonia. Between the two I sold over sixty books! The last box is dwindling–three left. I was the speaker of the week at the local Rotary Club, also promoted the book at the Mariposa Museum and History Center, though not very many visitors wandered through that day. I have been …