I am very pleased and proud that I have a flash fiction piece that has been published in the Real Women Write Anthology published by Story Circle Network.  This is a wonderful collection of poems, memoir pieces and flash fiction.  To order an anthology here’s the link: http://www.storycircle.org/frmanthology.shtml Here is my story. Intersections Jacob Peterson stared…

Ray and I are heading up to Ojai to spend the night tonight.  This is our Valentine’s gift to each other, to go to the peace of the orange grove until tomorrow afternoon. At that point, we will give each other the second part of our Valentine’s gift, an overnight visit with our two beloved…

I am happy to report that I have four Western regional winners (8 states) in the oldest and most prestigious writing contest for youth, grades 7 – 12, in the United States. Alumni recipients include such notable writers as Truman Capote, Stephen King, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Redford. Alexa N., a senior at Harvard-Westlake, has…

Congratulations to my writing student Fong Nham, who has recently been accepted to the M.D. Program at the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM) for the Class of 2021.  Fong is a UCLA graduate and currently works in medical research at City of Hope.  His parents escaped from the brutal Communist regime…

We arrived late afternoon here in LA. The traffic, despite rain and rush hour, was remarkably light.  We are now heading off to bed since the trip fatigue just hit big time. We left at 10 am yesterday, Central time, stopped at midnight last night, started again this morning at 8 am Mountain time, and…

We have stopped in Holbrook, AZ for the night after 14 hours of driving. Tired, but happy to be here. Stopped at our favorite health food store in Amarillo late this afternoon.  Always love visiting this family-owned fabulous store and enjoying their homemade honey-sweetened treats. Heading on to LA tomorrow.  Looking forward to seeing home…

Ray and I have accomplished our goal for this Texas trip: we staged the “Dimmit House” (the one we restored several years back, which is directly across the street from our Victorian, Lyon House), and then signed up with a realtor so it can go on the market. We have been hauling furniture, cleaning and…

We had the pleasure last night of attending the premiere of The Trip to Bountiful directed by one of our closest friends here in Sherman, Darrah Dunn.  Darrah, a seasoned actor and and set designer, turned his skill for this show to directing.  The cast, under his sensitive guidance, delivered a powerful performance of Texas playwright Horton…

We have officially arrived in Sherman, Texas after two solid days of driving from LA.  The weather was cold and the skies were clear for the entire trip. I am sitting now in the front parlor of our Victorian with the space heater keeping the room warm.  It feels good to be here after several…

We are currently in Grants, New Mexico en route to Sherman, Texas.  We left this morning at 6  from Ojai and arrived here around 8:45 pm.  We will get up early and drive on into Sherman tomorrow after about 12 hours of driving. We saw snow today in Arizona and New Mexico, the aftermath of…