Author of stories, articles, and gazillions of puzzles, published in magazines, books, and on the Web.
Speaker in schools, retirement centers, at conferences, and in retail shops. (No fooling!)
Teacher of writing, puzzle making, and embroidery.
Registration is open for the Bookmarks 101: Simple, Smart, and Swanky Finishes online class October 18 – November 14 There’s more to embroidered bookmarks than pre-finished rectangular forms. Lots more! Use scraps, […]
Back in July, Checkout Girl held an Embroidereading Contest. On August 1, when I shared news of the contest here, I offered an original verse to anyone who wanted to participate in […]
Last year, in an attempt to make jellied cranberry sauce, I discovered cranberry butter–or cranberry taffy, cranberry tar, cranberry glue, take your pick. I loved my cranberry butter. This year, I’ve picked […]
I did it! And I’m glad I did. The accomplishment: I read Gentlemen, by Michael Northrop. This has been on my reading list since it was released last year. I read the […]
To answer some questions from the last post… Yes, those are all really carrots. Yes, I grew them. The seeds are all from the same packet. I got the seeds at Bell’s […]
So…it appears our regular blog schedule begins with dead air. Crack me up! Life, again, interrupts my plans. This time, though, it was just car trouble, but it took all day to […]
