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By Leslie Anne Tarabella / November 16, 2023 /

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…

The best thing about Love in Fairhope

By Leslie Anne Tarabella / November 10, 2023 /

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…

Hodges & Figgis

By Leslie Anne Tarabella / October 26, 2023 /

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…

8 Ways to Help an Author

By Leslie Anne Tarabella / October 17, 2023 /

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…

Haggis in Scotland

By Leslie Anne Tarabella / October 12, 2023 /

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…

Lovely Ireland

By Leslie Anne Tarabella / October 4, 2023 /

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…

It’s ready!

By Leslie Anne Tarabella / September 15, 2023 /

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…

Sweet Eggs

By Leslie Anne Tarabella / August 30, 2023 /

The Buckeyes have crossed the line. They’ve ruined deviled eggs. The Ohio State Fair plans to offer an abomination of “dessert” deviled eggs. I guess growing up in a place without access to Granny’s Sweet Potato Pie or Aunt Darla Jean’s ‘Nanner Pudding will make you do crazy things to an egg.  In the days…

Car Washes and Little Pigs

By Leslie Anne Tarabella / August 23, 2023 /

I opened The Baldwin Times and saw photos from a carwash held by the Daphne High School volleyball team. It looked fun — with a giant fire truck even pulling up to be scrubbed.  There was a time when a high school car wash wouldn’t have grabbed my attention because it was a common Saturday…

5 shark attack theories

By Leslie Anne Tarabella / August 15, 2023 /

Jabberjaw was the only shark we used to see, and he only hurt us with bad jokes.  We swam like fish all over the Gulf of Mexico and never once encountered a shark. As children, then teenagers, and even into adulthood, sharks never bothered us as we swam past the shallow rough area, across the…