Port Isabel Light “Wave-swept Towers: In determining the design of a lighthouse tower to be erected in a wave-swept position consideration must be given to the physical features of the site and its surroundings.” Bishop Rock Lighthouse I grew up landlocked, the only waves “sweeping” ashore close to me was out at the local pond.
You turn your back to work on a new book and poof! Ashe and Lurch (he had no choice, of course) snuck out for an interview at Laurie’s Thoughts and Reviews! And they are hosting a giveaway of a gift card from AnaBanana’s Bath & Body Treats! I’m not quite sure how they managed it,
“Make for that black smoke in the sky – that’s Dunkirk…” Escape from Catastrophe: 1940 Dunkirk I was looking through a list of blog prompts and found one asking what event in history would I most like to visit. Now I could make a pretty long list of events I’d like to see with my
Normally, I’m a seat-of-the-pants writer. I have a good idea of the beginning and the end and some ideas for getting from one to the other; but otherwise, I let my characters lead me. I have a lot of fun and a lot of surprised this way. However, it doesn’t work as well for a
Thank you for hosting me today, Pauline. I appreciate the opportunity to talk with your readers about one of my favorite topics: the Big Damn Hero. I’ve always been fascinated by the Big Damn Hero, starting with my first Errol Flynn film on the late show one Saturday night when I was a youngster. Something
So, a gal walks into an (unnamed) chain bookstore–okay, so I was the gal and this isn’t one of those jokes. It’s a (mostly) true story. I usually shop for books online, because all I have to do is click and the books come to me, but this time I wanted to thumb through some
Once upon a time a young girl dreamed of becoming a writer. As she grew up, she wrote a few things in secret but she never told anyone her dream. Then she met her handsome prince (actually a geology student, but still a prince!) and they married. When she told him her dream, he urged
The news that Encyclopedia Britannica is going digital only was not a huge shock. Information is changing too fast for the fixed format of an encyclopedia, and those things were heavy and took up a LOT of space, but it did make me a bit nostalgic. Back in the day (sounds better than “in the
In 1955, the year Godzilla came to be and the year of my birth, Anne Morrow Lindberg’s Gift from the Sea was released to almost instant acclaim. It continues to be read and enjoyed today. Why does this slim volume–it’s only 138 pages–persist in engaging readers over fifty-six years after its first publication? And why
So, I’m not cute, what of it? I said something in one of my blogs about not going batcrap crazy and someone commented that they wanted to see that. So I thought today would be a good day to go bat crap crazy here on my blog (I wonder what a bad day would be?). Lots
