Continuing my podcast notes from yesterday (HERE), here’s the scoop on a great podcast. Listen while you bake Christmas cookies or drive your one horse open sleigh to parties. I don’t have a sister, but I truly think I could plop myself down at the kitchen table with Lainie and Laura Beth and feel like…
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Do you listen to podcasts? I have a list of favorites I rotate through each morning while I get ready for the day – you know the routine: wash the hair, dry the hair, fluff the hair, spray the hair, swish it all around in slow motion — or pull it up in a ponytail…
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Would you like me to read you a story? You’re never too old to hear a good tale, you know. My Audible version of Bringing Christmas Home is now available, and it’s the perfect thing to listen to in the car as you roll over the river and through the woods this Thanksgiving. (or while…
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Thank you for supporting a clean, family friendly Christmas story about hope, and family connections. You can read more about Bringing Christmas Home and order signed copies from my website by clicking HERE. Or click the Amazon link above or HERE. Bringing Christmas Home is also available at bookstores like Barnes and Noble and my…
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The introduction states, “The following is a collision of reality and fantasy featuring real people and inspired by their own stories.” They could have stopped after the word, “collision.” I’m finishing up details on a book about my hometown of Fairhope, Alabama. So, when Hulu premiered the TV show, “Love in Fairhope,” I told my…
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Yes, it’s older than America, but age isn’t what makes it so amazing. Hodges & Figgis Bookstore in Dublin, Ireland was founded in 1768 and is the largest and oldest bookstore in all of Ireland and according to some sources, the third oldest bookshop in the world after #1 Livararia Bertrand in Lisbon (1732) and…
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If you have a friend who is an author and want to help them — I think you are a very nice person. It’s always good to support those who are musicians, artists, dancers and dreamers. We keep the world from being so serious all the time. Reality can be rough, so to support a…
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Haggis, black pudding, square sausage, Scotch pies, Neeps and tatties. I ate it all. Proving those of us from Alabama will eat just about anything if you pour gravy over it. Haggis Neeps and Tatties (Scroll down to see the Haggis definition at the bottom of this post) After spending a week in Ireland to…
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If you take away their stone walls and sheep, then add kudzu and table salt, Ireland somehow feels a little bit like Alabama. We travel in order to experience new things and begin with the thought, “I’m tired of this old place. Let’s get out and see the world.” Yet once we arrive, the similarities…
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It’s been a wild summer of writing projects. The two main things I’ve been working on are shaping up with the first being ready now — It’s a second edition of my book, Bringing Christmas Home! The second project is on the horizon for release later this spring. – stay tuned! Bringing Christmas Home was…
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