Something I love about writing a novel set in another era is that I get to mentally return to a simpler time. This doesn’t mean a perfect time, but only that the time was less complex in nature. Let’s take, for example, social media. Do you ever wonder what we did before social media? Oh, […]
Caught Between Faith & Fear: My 9-11 NYC Journal, Part 1
I have decided, as we near the 20th anniversary of the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil, to share excerpts of my journal . . . of the events leading to my husband and me being in NYC that fateful day . . . and of insights I have since gleaned. Monday, September 10, […]
Dust, Chapter One
Allison October 1977 When I think back on it, I realize I never received a formal proposal of marriage. Not really, anyway. He never got down on one knee, never presented me with a diamond ring sparkling above a blanket of black velvet, prisms shooting out in the moonlight. There was no sweet scent of […]