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Friday
May182012

Tune in Tomorrow!

I'm a guest on the national CBC radio show, DNTO, tomorrow. Listen in and find out what I learned... selling Avon! 

DNTO with Sook-Yin Lee - Click here for show notes for "What did your business experience teach you?"

You can stream the show online, starting tomorrow afternoon at 1:30: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Radio 

And as of tomorrow morning, you'll be able to download the podcast here: http://www.cbc.ca/dnto/podcasts/dnto/

Friday
May182012

RIP, Donna Summer

In honor of Donna Summer's recent passing, I'm going to link to one of my old stories that features one of her glorious tunes:

Tappin' To the Oldies

 

Donna - you were Hot Stuff, indeed!

 

Enjoy! And keep dancing!

Tuesday
May152012

Carry On My Wayward Son

The boys at Sandia Cave

Mr. 17 graduates from the science and math high school this Saturday. This fall he attends a university on a full scholarship to study astrophysics. And Mr. 15 is finishing his freshman year at the media arts high school where he developed - all by himself, from scratch - a fantasy-based video game complete with 3-D rendered landscape and characters. It's in beta mode, and folks around the world are playing it.

Who will I write about when they've left the nest? I find that my stories are growing thin. The boys have friends, 17 has a car, they make their own adventures. Once in a while they remember me, pull me into their stories, but they are sliding onto a dance floor with a disco ball and sweaty young bodies, a club that doesn't allow middle-aged moms who like to merengue.

17 made me a mix CD for my car last week. This is the first song:

Thursday
May102012

I'm featured writer at Parlez Moi!

Please head on over to Kathleen Valentine's Parlez Moi Blog, where I am featured writer today! She has posted a little essay I wrote about The Book That Ate My Life

Make sure you check out Kathleen's books while you are at her site - if you enjoy Romantic Suspence, Knitting, and Cooking, you will LOVE her work! 

Thanks, Kathleen!

Thursday
Apr192012

Good fortune in the time of chaos...

Rames, King of the Birds, approves of this message!

My Avon Lady memoir is FREE in the kindle store today through Saturday! Three days of FREE! 

If you've read the book and enjoyed it, please consider leaving a kind review at Amazon. I would appreciate it so much!

Lots of love to one and all!

I just finished writing a story on a Mayan healing session I had last week, and may post it today. If not, look for it in a couple of weeks. I will be offline for a while as I tackle some personal stuff.