Honey Butter Current mood: blessed Category: Travel and Places So I am in chilly, but beautiful Austin, TX visiting my best friend Tam and her two-year old daughter Lola. We have been friends for 15 years and although Tam travels a lot, with a baby and her busy working life — not to mention my […]
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Comments(0) Current mood: chipper Category: News and Politics I love children and the nieces, nephews and assorted godchildren I have in my life are very important to me. As an author, they have inspired both Baby Kimo and the twins Kamaha and Keli’i in the Phantom Lover books (13 and counting). My niece is the model for […]
Read More..>> Comments(0) Current mood: hopeful Category: News and Politics On September 16, Mitrece Richardson, a 24 year old college grad went to dinner at Geoffrey’s restaurant in Malibu. By all accounts, she seemed…high on drugs, perhaps even drunk. She inserted herself into a couple of conversations and made inappropriate remarks, but for the most part people just thought […]
Read More..>> Comments(0) Current mood: contemplative Category: News and Politics Some years ago my Australian cousin’s husband was having a bad day at work. He left his office at lunchtime and was last seen going into the corner sandwich store to buy his usual sack lunch. Coworkers saw him walking along the street looking sad…that was his last known […]
Read More..>> Comments(0) Currently listening: The Complete Recordings By Robert Johnson Release date: 1996-10-08
Read More..>> Comments(0) Amelia Current mood: fascinated Category: News and Politics I have always been fascinated by Amelia Earhart. I didn’t know too much about her growing up in Australia, until I attended school here, Her mysterious disappearance remained hot classroom fodder, along with such enduring myths as D.B. Cooper. In my school, the enduring myth was Australia’s Prime […]
Read More..>> Comments(0) Current mood: cheerful Category: News and Politics It’s my turn to blog at Seven Wicked Writers today and here is what I posted: Yesterday was a very big day for the people of Hawai’i but none more than 11 special men and women who have fought valiantly for Father Damien, the ‘leper priest of Molokai’ to […]
Read More..>> Comments(0) Current mood: amused Category: Life Have you ever realized how much of our daily lives and therefore movies and books are ruled by superstition? I had a grandmother who would say a woman was coming to visit if somebody dropped a fork. If it was a knife on the floor, a man was coming to the […]
Read More..>>Current mood: adventurous Category: News and Politics It’s my turn to blog at Sensual N Secret and here is what I wrote: Meet Sergio Garcia. He’s 18 years old, he is an openly gay student at Los Angeles’ School District’s iconic Fairfax High School and he is their new Prom Queen. When the news hit the […]
Read More..>> Comments(0) Current mood: bouncy Category: News and Politics It’s my turn to blog at The Many Shades of Life and Love today and here is what I posted: Have you caught up with the NY Post’s big story about a woman, Sandrina Purdum suing a wedding guest for wrecking her wedding? In case you haven’t, this kinda […]
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