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Personally I like the word ‘Spamsters’ better but I believe the correct name is the one above. I’ve been getting inundated with tons of spam lately, all of which is making it past my filters for some reason unknown to […]

With all the rain we’ve been having, creeks are spilling all over the mountainside. This treehouse is at the top of the big hill. From it you’d be able to see all the way across the valley. A land ship, […]

This is the road I walk up. To the right you can see the Nine Ladies- huge towering White Pines. Lots of stone here in the Hudson Valley. It’s called bluestone. These are gorgeous. I think they’re considered weeds. Often […]

This song more than any other influenced my new manuscript, Lucky. The video is pretty awful but the audio is surprisingly good. Click on the link to hear it. Jets to Brazil Chinatown on YouTube /////////////////////////////////////////

It’s simultaneously satisfying and saddening to write those two words at the end of a sheaf of papers, and the culmination of three months’ hard work ( there was another three months when I was sorting stuff out in my […]

Although I’m in the midst of revising my WIP… Sorry a quick aside here re. the WIP. Current title I’m tossing around is OH LUCKY GIRL! I’m starting to wonder what I was thinking of naming my heroine Lucky because […]

Today on my walk I found a luna moth on the road. It was not damaged but it was dead. I had no idea they inhabited New York State. Having seen them before only in Italy, I thought they liked […]

Something is going on with the website again. You may have noticed that it is in plain black and white now rather than those lovely greens and reds. The magical stars have vanished and you can’t navigate around anymore. I […]

Just got back from the morning walk. We saw the usual fauna (deer, turkey, squashed frog) but there seemed to be an increase in small baby animals. Those young enough to be on their own (I suppose) but too young […]