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  • Cats Eating

    Cover for my upcoming book, Six Cats in My Kitchen This is the planned cover design for a memoir I’m working on. I’m gathering photos for the book and hope to publish it as a kindle book by late March. Let me know what you think of the cover.

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  • This morning, I watched a documentary film on HBO called One Small Act. It’s an amazing tale of one Swedish woman’s generosity, the boy she helped, and the desperate need for education among poor children in Kenya. But it’s also about an extraordinary coincidence. The woman, Hilde Back, whose small donations allowed one Kenyan child, Chris Mburu, to go on…

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  • Ice, ice and more ice!

    My husband took me out to dinner tonight, my first time out of the house in four days. The streets are still so icy here in Fort Worth that I clutched the edge of my seat most of the way to our destination. I’m a Nervous Nelly passenger even without the ice, but since many Texans aren’t very adept at…

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  • That’s the tempurature reported on TV a short while ago. Not what we generally expect down here. I grew up in Minnesota and later spent five years in Chicagoland. Winters in both places are cold, hard and long.  Not my cup of tea, so when my husband was transfereed to Texas by his employer, I was overjoyed.…

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  • Why Druids?

    Have you wondered why I chose two such incongruous subjects for my Texas Druids series? I mean what do Druids have to do with Texas? Well, to begin with there are Druids in Texas. Did you know that? Neither did I until my son happened across their website while helping me build this blog page.…

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  • Not For Cat Lovers Only

    Check out the new links I just added — to a short non-fiction book I posted in serialized form on my blogspot site in late 2010. This book is about six beloved cats and the important role they have played in my family. As I state in the introduction, it is NOT a cute kitty book,…

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  • Grrrrrr!

    I’m not a techie! Learning my way around new sites drives me crazy, and this one is no exception. First I couldn’t figure out how to apply a theme (when I was still going the free route.) I finally gave up and paid to make this my home page, which is okay because I’d been…

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  • E-books in The News

    The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, our local newspaper, recently ran an article titled “Authors see e-books as escape from publishers” – written by Alex Pham of the Los Angeles Times. In it, Pham mentions several well known authors who are now publishing at least some of their books electronically, or are planning to do so. They…

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  • Links to My Guest Posts

    I just added links to several articles I wrote for Writers in the Storm, here on WordPress. They comprise a how-to series about publishing a Kindle book on amazon.com. If you’re considering that path to publication, you might find my experiences with the process helpful.

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  • Hello world — New!

    I finally figured out how to post. Sheesh, after working on blogspot, which is much simpler in my opinion, this site is hard to understand, at least at first. I’m sure I’ll get used to it. I’d better since I’m paying for it, right? Okay, enough griping. I really just want to say hi to…

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