Grace Chesterfield lay curled up on the overstuffed couch in her father’s office on Wall Street reading under the light of the green and red stained-glass dragonfly lamp. She snuggled under a cashmere throw, reading Wuthering Heights and dreaming of Heathcliff. The comforting clicking of the stock ticker on its handsome mahogany stand kept lulling…
Category: Writing
Visitors from Texas
My niece, Katie Leatherwood, and her boyfriend, Nowell, are visiting this week. This is a treat for me since we don’t get lots of Texas visitors out here in LA. They are off right now at the Comedy Store watching Tim Allen do a show. This is after spending most of the day at the…
Interview with Stephen King from Youtube
Due to the return of chills, extremely stuffy nose and a low-grade fever, I am sharing a question and answer session with Stephen King for my blog this evening. It’s light-hearted and lots of fun.
Flu for Three Days and Thoughts on Michelle
Hi folks, Sorry for my silence. The flu caught hold of me and has kept me down with chills, a fever, a cough and periodic nausea. I am definitely on the mend. I even saw one student today for two hours and cooked some lunch. At this point, it was clear that I had overstepped…
I Have Spoken to the LAPD about Michelle’s Disappearance
I spoke to Detective Ortega today and his supervisor at the Olympic police station. They were both forthcoming with details about this case. They said they have been speaking to both the wife of the man who took Michelle and also to Michelle’s mother. The gist: they believe that Michelle went voluntarily to Guatemala with…
Update on Trip to Police Station
I drove this morning to the Olympic Police Station to give the detective there all the information Michelle Sandoval’s family had provided since her disappearance on December 19th. The first officer I spoke to was very nice and attentive, said the detective was not in, but made a copy of the documents I brought and…
Editing, Cooking and Now Ready for Bed
My eyes are crossing. I have been busy today, particularly with editing. I feel as if I need to go to bed soon. Ray is better, but not totally out of the woods. He still has a slight temperature. I have cooked today for my birthday celebration tomorrow. Odd, you say? Well, I would prefer…
Sick Day
Ray has the flu now. So, today, after returning from church, I have done nothing but sit upstairs and watch movie after movie with him. We saw a Doris Day/Rock Hudson movie called Lover Come Back, then a Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy movie, Adam’s Rib, then two episodes of the new HBO series True Detective, one…
Comfort Food and the Best Honey-Sweetened Chocolate Cake Ever
When I need comfort, I cook. There’s nothing like chopping garlic and onions and starting them to saute in a pan with olive oil to make me feel a little more grounded. Today, I added carrots, celery, green pepper, yellow squash, zucchini squash, and fresh mushrooms, then sautéed them until they were coated with the…
Another Update: Missing
I spoke to the FBI today. This was a woman agent from New York State who was alerted to the disappearance of Michelle Sandoval by my friend, Charlotte Watson. I gave the agent the contact information for Elda and her daughter, Melissa, who is fluent in English. She said she would contact them. I do…
20 Minutes a Day 