In choosing your name we followed our tradition and named you for people that we loved who had passed away. Your first name, Hannah is for my mother’s best friend, Heather Ann. Heather passed away shortly after your father and I met and they never had the chance to meet each other. ...
Some people give their children names that mean good things. Clara means “bright”; Beatrice means “one who gives happiness”; Donald means “world ruler”; Leonard means “as brave as a lion”.The earliest last names, or surnames, were taken from place names. A family with the name ...
No longer did the liner notes tell the definitive story of Rodion-Ladislau Rosca and Rodion G.A. This was hugely disappointing and I was far from happy about this, and with the person who edited the liner notes. Having been mastered by the label’s in-house mastering engineer, the ...
Now I can admit to becoming an extremist (post diabetes diagnosis) but let me be specific….. I became aCARBOHYDRATE EXTREMIST. I knew I had to remove sugar from my lifestyle. I knew many fruits were also high in sugar too. I did what every diabetic ought to do – got a blood gluc...
"The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet" - Frederick Buechner
wooden stand from the Brooklyn Union Gas Co., mass-produced yet durable, being here now, is what it is yet a dream-map so obdurate, so plain, she thinks, the material and the dream can join and that is the poem and that is the late report. ~ Adrienne Rich Beatrice Ethel Lithiby ...
t want to write anything “new” until they are out into the world. I haven’t set a way for publishing them yet (all of them need considerable editing first) but I’m not in this for the money. As I did with my short storyLove Me Tender, I might produce the novels using Book...
Max, of course, did the right thing. As I said, it was all pretty predictable and familiar. At least Tattoo got to have some fun. Along with speaking French, he also got to put on a bookie outfit and then take bets on the outcome of the fight. When Roarke told Tattoo to cancel ...
From Eyes Open by Lyn Miller-Lachmann Several months ago I wonEyes Openin a giveaway hosted by L. Marie at El Space. I did not take several months to read this compelling novel written in free verse. Procrastination–the one thing I excel at–preempted a timely review. But perhaps not...
Prince Charles received nursery instruction at Buckingham Palace from Catherine Peebles (known by the prince as Mispy), as did his younger sister Princess Anne and brothers Prince Andrew and Prince Edward. But by the early 1980s, times had changed, and William and Harry ...