I'm in the process of figuring out who I am - mother, wife, daughter, writer, extrovert, hermit. A contradiction in every sense of the word. Maybe it's a cliche or just mid-life, after all it's the journey, not the destination.
What a fascinating way to write about the life and times of the famous silent film star Lousine Brooks. The Chaperone isn't really about Brooks, it is the story of a close to middle-aged woman living in a era when society's moral compass seemed to be swinging wildly from one extreme to the other. Cora Carlilse leaves Witchita, Kansas to chaperone Brooks for the summer in New York City while the not yet discovered starlet attends the Denishawn Dance Academy. Cora leaves behind her husband and her quiet, sheltered life to return to the city where she lived as an orphan at the "Home for Friendless Girls". The author vividly creates the exciting world of New York in the roaring twenties. Juxtaposing the free spiritedness of the flappers with Prohibition. Cora wrestles with her preconceived ideas of what is right and expected of women, trying to protect her young charge from ruining her reputation in the big city. Ironically, it is Cora who risks ruination when she meets a man who helps to change her mind about what she wants from life.
Nice People
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“Oh, Kay!” our ever-sweet and delightful school receptionist stopped me
as I walked by on my way to grab a kid out of the carpool line. Sometimes
after a...
Ordinary Days I Miss You
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*Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.*
*Let me learn from you, love you, treasure you, before you depart.*
*Let me not pass you by in quest ...
The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden
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While browsing in the Wallingford Bookshop in that medieval market town in
England, I was drawn to the gorgeous cover of *The Bear and The Nightingale*
(...
Now We’re Talking!
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As the American ski racing world convenes in Sun Valley to contest the
National Championships, it is the perfect time and place to dive in to
tough issues ...
merry christmas & happy new year my friends
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good morning friends! i pray each of you enjoyed a wonderful christmas &
are now in that hazy -“what day is it” mode these days between christmas &
new y...
Heat Wave
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Today the sun beats on us mercilessly; we weren't prepared for this.
Schools close early, humans line up with jugs of water and gallons of milk.
We close o...
With all my heart amen.
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This was my first prayer. Dear God, thank you for all the wonderful things
you have ever given us. Keep Mummy, Daddy, Emily, Kaila, Suzy, Eeyore
Beth, and...
That's Amore
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I know. I know. I promised I'd write about Italy but within minutes of
getting there it stopped making sense to write. First, Italy isn't a
writing-about k...
Book Review: The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor
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Title: The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of The Titanic Author: Hazel Gaynor
384 pages, Published by William Morrow Paperbacks, $14.99 Hazel’s Info:
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I AM BACK! Decorating our Naples Home
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Well my friends, it has been a struggle to get Google to let me back on my
own site…apparently middle-aged women that live on a farm, have animals,
and ...