Ideas take shape:Together Joan and I organized and distilled down the goals for our original collaboration. Then Joan produced our first Index Card. Eight years later, with the help of Joan’s friend and my new collaborator Rebecca Rodriguez, I rediscovered it on our website. Together we are better! Joan checked all the boxes! As I…
The friends and the friends-who-are-relatives of Joan Smith Grey gathered at the Military Women’s Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday to honor and celebrate an outstanding woman. The eulogies, the snapshot photo show, and the recording of Joan reading the Epilogue to her book accentuated some of Joan Grey’s many accomplishments. We revered Joan…
When you finish your load of laundry or empty the last drop from your dishwasher soap, what happens to the bottle? Check your nearest scenic waterfall. What if all of us just make one change? What if we all switch to a detergent that comes in cardboard instead of plastic? We know now that plastic…
I can’t wrap my head around losing Joan Grey. Intellectually, I knew it was coming. I saw her a week ago, Thursday. I could tell she was fading. She told me so too. She knew she didn’t have long. She could feel her body shutting down. But to have her really go? Even after she…
I did it! Pioneer Passage, book 3 in my Journey of Cornelia Rose Series just received the Pinnacle Book Award for BEST HISTORICAL FICTION Winter 2022. “Pioneer Passage is a truly delightful, meaty read that will satisfy any reader who enjoys an excellent adventure exceptionally well told.” Grant Leishman, Readers’ Favorite *****FIVE STARS I am…
A year ago on St Patrick’s Day, my friend, Joe, and I were driving to the DC Veterans’ hospital for Covid vaccines. I had lucked out and gotten my first shot space-available (remember the early vaccine days when age- or pre-existing conditions restrictions made getting vaccinated challenging?). On the way to the hospital, Joe was…
Every two weeks, I had been returning to the infusion center at Georgetown. Outside the window, I watched the ongoing construction project. Inside the hospital, I’m hoping for tumor destruction, as measured by lab results and scans. Until January, progress had been more of a mixed bag than advancement like the building’s. Now, growth and…
“Pioneer Passage is a truly delightful, meaty read that will satisfyany reader who enjoys an excellent adventure exceptionally welltold.” reviewer Grant Leishman for Readers’ Favorite Having already read the second story in this saga, I wasfamiliar with the principal characters of the Wright family andauthor J.F. Collen uses this iteration to expand on and emphasizethe…
What a magical wintery night to launch my new book, the third in the Journey of Cornelia Rose Series. We had the comfort of space heaters and great, newly improved fabrics to keep us warm, unlike the characters in my book who faced the rough winter cold in wet wool coats and soggy mittens. As…
Be aware: deadline ahead. The doctors that I saw in Fall 2021 were pretty clear: pancreatic cancer is deadly. Two different oncologists explained that without surgery, the outlook for this cancer is usually less than a year. In my experience, most doctors aren’t so forthcoming with prognostic pronouncements, but the research seems consistent. Information extracted…
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