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miss_rogue / Foter / CC BY-SAAKA: A Room of One's Own. Thank you Virginia Woolf. I recently moved....
Finally meeting a fellow author… in person!
As you know, I've waxed lyrical, poetical and every other "al" you can think of about the Women's Fiction Writers Association, and I can't wait for our retreat in New Mexico at the end of September. But one of the greatest things about our little (well now over 600...
J is for Jerusalem
They say home is where the heart is. If that's the case, then my heart has at various times and I guess always will belong in England, Australia and the United States, because these are the countries I have lived in. I also lived in Israel for 11 years, specifically...
I is for Iris
No. Not another person's name in my life. Not even the iris of my eye. No, this Iris is a song by The Goo Goo Dolls (a great name in and of itself). There is a lot of speculation as to the title of the song and what the song is all about. Many theories say the band...
H is for Helen
Of Troy? No. Of Leigh-on-Sea. (Sorry Helen. You probably weren't expecting to land up here). 'Never heard of it,' I hear you say. Yes, it's not likely. Leigh-on-Sea is part of Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England. And it's where my parents (and my older sister) were...
G is for Gallimaufry
A mish-mash, hodgepodge, jumble. THAT is gallimaufry. And it sounds wonderful, too. Go ahead. Say it out loud. Listen to it roll off your tongue. Apparently it also means a "stew" - throw everything into the pot. I'd like to pretend I've always known this word, but it...
F is for Fairies
Because every little kid believes in them, right? I'm not talking about the Tooth Fairy. Not sure I ever believed in her. I didn't want to be associated with fairies that caused pain. Why go through the agony of a lost tooth and all that blood to be visited by a...
E is for Effervescent
I LOVE this word. Somehow just by saying it or even reading it, I can't help but be happy. It's like the dancing fountain and the trolley on the tracks at the Grove in Los Angeles (not to mention there's one of the few remaining Barnes and Noble bookstores left there...