When I was a teenager, my father worked for Former President Jimmy Carter. Or, as he was at that time, Governor Carter. I never actually met him, but my father, who was (at that time) an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, spoke highly of him as a person. Not so much as a […]
Beth Bettencourt: The Way It Was & The Way It Is
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, […]
Lessons Learned in Ireland: Day One–Tipperary
I went to Ireland for the first time in 2019 and left with a plan to return two years later. Of course, that didn’t happen, COVID being what it was . . . But when world returned to something akin to normal, a plan was hatched. Before I get into the second trip, let me […]
The Story Behind the Picture: Old First Church, Bennington, VT
Our grandson and his girlfriend announced their engagement. We couldn’t have been more thrilled. Then they announced their engagement party which would precede the wedding by about two years. Kids today. The party would be held at the Albany Pump Station (Brewery & Restaurant). In New York. State. Almost an entire eastern seaboard from Orlando, […]
The Story Behind the Picture: Tel Hazor, Israel
by Eva Marie Everson On a crisp September morning in 2001, I stood beside my husband in the middle of 5th Avenue, New York City, as a plume of smoke rose to the south. We were both in shock; the morning’s events were beyond anything we could have imagined would happen to us during our […]
Victoria Street, Edinburgh Scotland
anguages and of the thrill of hearing the Scottish lilt from the locals. Of trying to make out what they were saying as they talked between themselves, even though we spoke the same language.