Sisters! There is nothing like sisters. My heart breaks for any woman who has to make her way through life without one. Sisters are better than gold. They are magic and rich chocolate frosting piled on graham crackers, and hot fudge sundaes with nuts, whip, and a cherry on top. At least that’s how they are for me. Who else can a girl fight with, scream and yell at, pinch and punch, then run outside to swing and dance and simply say, “sorry sister,” and know you are forgiven? Who else can a girl trade bras with? No one knows a girls heart better than the one she shares parents, pets, and siblings with. And there is something about that unique relationship that bonds us together in a way nothing else ever does. Growing up with sisters is like growing up with extensions of oneself. For me, it was myself divided three ways. My older sister got the artistic gift and the brains. She could pull a four point as easily as I could make friends. In college, she was the master of charcoal on canvas. My favorites were the nudes. I was shocked by the boldness of the models.…
Month: January 2013
Me & Sue (continued)
As the little girls grew up, they became clever and mischievous. One day, toward the end of their first grade year, Sue called and asked that I go to the school and pick our trouble-times-two, up from the nurse’s office. Apparently they were sick. I can’t tell you how many times the two of them were sick together. Never did one get sick without the other which worked to our advantage. That way, only one of us moms had to take time off from work. I’d stay home for one illness and Sue would stay home for another. As employees go, we were pretty reliable, taking about half the time off mothers normally do in order to care for sick children. Yet, the school often questioned this joint sickness thing. I guess they doubted these two little girls were always legitimately taken ill with the same thing at the same time. But Sue and I liked it. It just made life easier for us a lot more fun for them. On this particular day, Sue was laughing when she called and told me the girls were claiming to be sick and had gone to the office with a note supposedly…
Me & Sue
Me & Sue Sue and I have been friends for about thirty years. It’s hard to believe since it seems only yesterday that I went to her door on a gray rainy day and introduced myself. Her sister was a mortgage broker and had done our home loan. She told me I needed to meet Sue, her younger sister, who was a stay-at-home mom and lived only two blocks from our new home. Sue was pregnant, as was I, each with our second child. It was one of those days where a good time girl looks around her gray environment and fights hard to hold back the tears. I needed a friend in the neighborhood and I was determined to get one. The walls were starting to close in and as much as I loved my baby girl, I needed to have a conversation, one that didn’t involve walking around the house pointing at things. I’m sure my toddler was tired of trying to communicate with me as well. Someone who spoke her language would be nice. So, I put my baby in the stroller, rain coat on, zipped and snapped, boots, mittens, hat, bottle, diaper changes, graham crackers…
Book Release!
Hello Everyone! UPS just delivered the first shipment of my latest novel, A Friend Like Frank, The Mischief Chronicles, Volume 1. The exciting part of being an author is the actual writing of the story. The gruesome part is the marketing which we all have to do these days. If only…. back in the day, publishers promoted new authors, the goal to make everyone a best seller. Yet, that promoting became expensive, and as time went by, publishers needed to tighten the belt and now put their money on the well known and already famous writers of our day. So, how does a locally known, small town author get national attention? By working hard and selling as many books as possible on my own. By doing everything I can to expand beyond my neck of the woods. And, if I’m successful, a publisher may just decide to put some marketing money into my books some day and just see what happens! This is simply the way it is. A Friend Like Frank is the first in The Mischief Chronicles, a three book series. It is a fun, romantic comedy full of lively characters you would love to be friends with.…