Category: My Memoirs

  • Chapter Four

    My publishing career took a huge leap forward when I began publishing, both with KDP and WRP. (Kindle Digital Publishing) and (Wild Rose Press). The Paris Notebook, a stand alone, published by WRP’s “Champagne Rose” category. I was reading lots of chick lit at that time but I also wrote short stories that were more…

  • How I Got Here

    How I Got Here

  • Last Letter to Mom

    Last Letter to Mom

    It’s mom’s birthday today. Hi, Mom! Just in case someone reads this to you, I’m sorry we are not out to lunch at Olive Garden. I was not able to send you books, either. It’s sad you cannot read anymore as reading was always your biggest pleasure (aside from you grandsons!) It sure is a…

  • Teenage Parents

    I had no interest in reading Demi Moore’s biography until a reviewer mentioned she’d had a tough childhood. The adjective was stronger than “tough” maybe “horrific” — something that made my ears perk up. To come so far from where she’d started, enduring some form of ongoing abuse as a child, was a story I…

  • Family Far and Wide

    Family Far and Wide

    Mom, Mike, Cindy & Tim 1980 I just made up a hashtag. #MWNKIT=Mom With No Kids In Town. I can’t be the only one. In fact I know I’m not as Al and I celebrate Thanksgiving every year with friends who also have two sons that live in other states. Our kids grew up together…