Marshmallows on the sweet potatoes or not? Packaged dressing? Yes or No? Why is turkey so damn expensive? Pertinent questions like this are being asked in homes throughout my neighborhood. The city. State. Country, for God’s sakes. Pertinent questions about the most over-stuffed holiday of the year. It’s Thanksgiving. Ninety-four percent of people in the United States will celebrate the holiday this year. A holiday time for counting the number around the dining room table,

Happy one-hundredth birthday to Wilma. And Happy Publication Day! Available on Amazon - https://a.co/d/8q12Sbc or by contacting me directly for a much less expensive copy!

Wilma Withdrawal is definitely happening! After completing any major project, there’s some kind of letdown I’m thinking... It happened after completing my first book, T he Orangewoods—Seasons in the Country Artfully Lived, which was published three months into the pandemic. An extremely soft landing into a shutdown world. It happened with my second, After Goya—A Mature-ish Fairytale . With this one, the letdown lingers with me regretting at times that I hadn’t writte

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