History, Real Life and Faith
What is “demonstrated unreliability? Long ago, one of my husband’s classmates was in a minor automobile accident after an evening spent bowling. He swerved to miss something and ended up in a ditch. The police pulled the car out but detained him. He’d had a few too many beers. I didn’t think much of it thirty-some years ago until my…
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For 20 years I held a security clearance with the United States Navy. Not because I was in the Navy, though I had an ID card, but because I was married to someone in the Navy. I needed to have a clearance so I could know when he was coming and going. Loose Lips Sink Ships, as the World War II…
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Here’s Suzie just in from a “spa” treatment at Petco. She’s twelve-years old and has been blind for over two years. Her muzzle is turning white, she walks tentatively, has picked up weight, has digestive issues and is as sweet as can be. Most of her days are spent on her bed or begging to be let in and out…
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One of the best parts about writing a book featuring a massage therapist as the heroine, is I had to have a massage “for research.” In January (thank you Montecito Heights Spa) in February (thank you, Hotel del Coronado Spa) and in March (thank you, Coldwater Creek Spa). I’d had massages before of course, here in California but also in…
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When I met the beautiful model in Budapest and looked at her avant gaarde artist husband, I asked the obvious question. “How did you meet him?” “I sent this text,” my outlaw laughed. (Outlaws are your in-law’s relatives) “But it went to Gabor instead of my boyfriend.” She batted her eyelashes at him and he smiled. “He replied that it…
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I was on a business trip to China with my brother and we had spent the day touring an electronics factory. The factory managers, who had never met my brother before, were a nervous. Business customs required them to entertain this foreign visitor. But he has his sister with him. Normally, they’d take the guest to a bar and all get rip…
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