Archive | March, 2010

Kids…you’ve gotta love ‘em

It may not ever make Broadway, but the musical production “Let’s Rock” put on by the Kid’s Choir at Westside Baptist was awesome. The thing about kids is that they light up like firecrackers when they get involved in something like this and their enthusiasm is highly contagious. As many of my readers know, I [...]

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Art & All That Jazz

Live after 5…the 8th Annual Art and All that Jazz returns to the Port St. Lucie Civic Center on Friday, April 9th, so get ready to treat your eyes and ears to some great music and awesome art.The Festival runs from 5:30 pm until 8:30 pm. One of the exhibitors will be our favorite Potter, Jerry Rogak.  [...]

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Brandeis Book Study Group

Back in June, Ronnie Fassberg invited me to speak before her Brandeis Book Study Group  and I am delighted that I had the opportunity to do so. What a wonderful, bright, energetic and full of questions group of women this turned out to be. The meeting was held this past Wednesday in Stuart, at the Temple Beit Ha [...]

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A Girl’s Guide to Changing a Tire…

Funny how something like a word, a gesture, or a phrase can trigger a thought that opens a floodgate of memories. In reading Shellie Rushing Tomlinson’s book of Southern Wisdom, entitled Suck in your Stomach and Put on Some Color I came across a bit of wisdom contributed by a reader in Fullerton, California. In [...]

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Honoring Those Who Serve…

Sometimes we dream up stories, sometimes they come to us in the hearfelt words of a friend. In response to my story about Coal Fork, West Virginia, I received an e-mail from a friend who is not only a wonderful writer, but also one of the most hardworking and dedicated women in our chapter of [...]

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The Legend of the Rolling Pin

Mother and Dad Married in 1929 on a beautiful summer’s day…and embarked on a journey filled with love that would never fade away. Money was scarce, and times were hard,  though everyone wished them well…Their only wedding gift was a rolling pin which has its own story to tell. Mother spoke often of the rolling pin that [...]

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The Green Side of the Mountain – Part 2

Many years have passed since I spent summer vacations in Coal Fork, West Virginia…and during those years a number of things happened.  Rita, the third sister, discovered she was unable to have children and adopted a little girl; a few years later Breast Cancer took her life and the child was sent to live with [...]

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On the Green Side of the Mountain…

  We live in a world where plenty is the norm, where kids wear designer sneakers and carry the latest technology in their back pocket. We become agitated when our computer takes more than 29 seconds to boot. We text our friends, download a new movie and send out for sushi…but how often do we stop to consider how truly [...]

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Animal Quackers…

Author Marlene Klotz has written a delightful new book of children’s poetry that will have kids chuckling as they travel through the antics of characters such as the Alligator with the toothy smile and the squiggly wiggly worm. Animal Quackers follows Klotz’s earlier Alphabet Zoo. Inspired by love for her own grandchildren, this award-winning poet has [...]

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10 Reasons Why Every Writer Needs a Dog…

No, I’m not talking about a dog of a story, I’m talking about the yapping, tail wagging, love you forever kind of friend that writers should not be without. However, in deference to all my kitty-loving friends I must admit that some cats have been able to capture the same wonderful traits found in dogs. Katie is my baby…well, [...]

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