I have a friend who writes his novels in spiral notebooks. Beginning to end. This is his primary means of writing because, as he explains, he is not a typist. Me, I suppose I’m a typist. The art of writing longhand fascinates me, though. Obviously, writers have been doing it that way for centuries, and…
I have been catering and coordinating special events since the early 1990’s and am also an avid home cook who loves to learn new cooking techniques, experiment with new recipes and entertain our friends and family. In 2006 I threw a birthday party for my oldest son Martin’s 27th birthday. It was a lot of…
Cold Rock River was inspired by an incident in my own life. Like Adie’s sister Annie, my baby sister Vick choked on a jellybean when she was twenty months old. It was the week following Easter and we three older girls had our little baskets squirreled away. Our mother insisted we weren’t to drag them…
One night I was sitting bored at work. I think to a point we all have those nights. Well, most people I suppose would have those during the day. At that time I was working the graveyard shift at a gas station. It paid the bills, but left me emotionally and mentally unfulfilled. Most of…
The Story Behind the Book 