This week’s exclusive excerpt of my recent novel, The Postwoman, shines on a light on Dedée doing what she does best—keeping the Gestapo on their toes. The street lights were turned off, but Dedée could navigate well in her old…
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The Postwoman (Based on the true story of Andrée De Jongh): Excerpt 2
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The Postwoman (Based on the true story of Andrée De Jongh): Excerpt
The following is excerpted from The Postwoman—based on the true story of French Resistance fighter, Andrée De Jongh. Available on amazon.com in paperback and as an ebook. June 1940 The young English soldier’s face lit up when Dedee approached his…
A Valentine Story
As a junior in high school, without realizing it, my hormones were asserting themselves…peach fuzz on my chin and red blotches all over my fifteen year old face. I liked girls. I liked the way they looked, moved, talked, smelled…everything.…
Posted in Beginnings, Holidays
A Civil War Thanksgiving: Recipes from Miss Leslie’s Complete Cookery
“Every one knows that “the” event of Thanksgiving Day is the Thanksgiving dinner. And it is right and reasonable that it should be thus. For a good dinner is the crowning achievement of every home. It strikes a chord to…
Posted in Holidays
The San Francisco Review of Books takes a look at Scarred
Book Review: ‘Scarred’ by Michael Kenneth Smith Author and master storyteller Michael Kenneth Smith trained as a mechanical engineer, owned and operated a successful auto parts business, and after twenty years, retired to fish, golf, cook, playing bridge, and become…
Posted in Scarred
August 19, 2017: #SaturdayScene
This week’s #SaturdayScene features Caitlin Hamilton Summie’s To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts of which Peter Geye (Wintering) noted, “If you’re a fan of Grace Paley or Ann Beattie or Tobias Wolfe, you’ll surely find something to love in these pages.” …
August 12, 2017: #SaturdayScene
This week’s #SaturdayScene features The Language of Trees by Steve Wiegenstein. The inhabitants of Daybreak, a quiet 19th-century utopian community, are courted by a powerful lumber and mining trust and must search their souls as the lure of sudden wealth tests age-old…
July 22, 2017: #SaturdayScene
This week’s #SaturdayScene is a continuation of last week’s excerpt from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner’s Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad—the dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help…
July 15, 2017: #SaturdayScene
“Illuminating . . . an invaluable addition to our history.” – Kevin Baker, New York Times Book Review “[A] detailed narrative . . . infused with the spirit of freedom.”—Bruce Watson, San Francisco Chronicle “Riveting . . . a visceral chronicle of defiance…
