Beautiful Savannah
Spring is the perfect time for a visit to Savannah, GA. The lovely weather has the city bursting forth with flowers and greenery galore....
Cats and Writers
Why is it cats and writers seem to go together as easily as love and marriage? My husband and I visited Ernest Hemingway's house in Key...
The Falcons of Time-Crossed Love
I had fun researching falcons and falconry in my novel Time-Crossed Love. Would you believe the use of a trained bird of prey to hunt...
Peruvian Condors
Colca Canyon in Peru is one of the deepest canyons in the world and home to Condors, one of the largest birds in the world. According to...
When the Rains Come
The rains came to my town in Texas in August, Hurricane Harvey bringing 54 inches of rain over a few days' time. About one third of my...
Would you eat this?
What is this, you say? Why guinea pig, I reply! Yup, we met this lovely young lady in Peru in September. The textiles she's wearing were...
My Zen Place
The Antique Rose Emporium is a family favorite of ours. A mystical place out in the middle of the country a few miles from Brenham,...
Romance in Italy
We were eating dinner with friends on a lovely terrace in Sorrento, Italy, when this happened! I always thought paintings and pictures...
A Ghostly Encounter
Part of the fun of writing a time travel story is getting to look at mystical places like castles. I spent time learning the language of...
Cheers for Eau de vie
I wanted the Earl of Hertford to share a drink with his friends in Time-Crossed Love, but I wanted it to be something other than ale, so...