Archive for the 'life' Category

License to Kill

 Current mood:  contemplative Category: Life I’m disturbed by the rising number of men and women who kill their children before – and sometimes not – killing themselves. With so many people I know clamoring for kids of their own it sickens and angers me that some parents feel they have the right to take their children’s […]

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The Gift From 9/11: Love, Actually

Current mood:  contemplative Category: Life It’s my turn to blog at Sensual N Secret today and here is what I posted: I wasn’t going to blog about the events of September 11 but it is my day to post here and although I had planned an entirely different subject matter, I have to talk about the […]

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Ten Things to do Before Summer Ends

Current mood:  breezy Category: Life It’s my turn to blog at 7 Wicked Writers and here is what I posted: 10. Garden in the nude. Hey, if it works for Woody Harrelson and Alicia Silverstone, it’s gonna work for my skinny ass. 9. Skinny dip in your pool, the beach, a creek. Nope, taking a bath […]

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China

Current mood:  contemplative Category: Friends I had planned a different blog today but I am overwhelmed with grief that my wonderful friend China, who also went by a number of different names, Kelly, Elaine, Cassandra, China Rose – has died. China and her husband Charlie had the best, most incredible marriage I know of. Married 50 […]

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Letters to a Goddess

Letters to a Goddess Current mood:  blissful Category: Life It’s my turn to blog at Sensual N Secret and here is what I posted: I am back in Honolulu and this morning, my favorite partner in crime, my niece and goddaughter Eleanna and I had a sacred visit to make. Armed with letters from friends scattered […]

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Superstition

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 […]

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The 99 Cent Store

Current mood:  artistic Category: Life It’s my turn to blog at Seven Wicked Writers today and here is what I wrote: One of my secret, guilty pleasures is trolling the aisles of the 99 Cent Store. My goodaughter Eleanna and I have become proficient afficionadoes of the chain and whilst some of my friends are aghast […]

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Chili Chucker

Current mood:  amused Category: Life It’s my turn to blog at Nice N Naughty today and here is what I wrote: Have y’all heard about the woman who thwarted would-be burglars by throwing a bowl of chili at them? According to yesterday’s news reports, they were so petrified of her resourceful use of kitchen utensils and her […]

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Q

Current mood:  amused Category: Life It’s my turn to blog at Seven Wicked Writers today and here is what I wrote: As a writer, I collect lines of dialogue, names, places, little snippets like a bower bird. Names particularly intrigue me as I write so many books I am constantly on the lookout for unusual […]

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Mother’s Day

Current mood:  content Category: Life It’s my turn to blog at The Seven Wicked Writers Today and here is what I wrote: It’s Mother’s Day again, my least favorite ‘holiday’ of the year. It’s a terrible reminder that I don’t have a mother. I lost her when I was six to the ravages of colon cancer. […]

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