It’s a holiday and I’m enjoying the spring sunshine and the cooking activity, caesar salad with house made croutons and a buttermilk caesar dressing, breaded pork cutlets to grill, and scalloped potatoes the old-fashioned way. Zippy and Kipling received extra treats and A Play Demonic (The Queen’s Idle Fancy) debuts Chapter 28! Please enjoy this…
This past week was one of the best weeks here in the San Juan Islands, crisp sunny days strung together. Today is Kipling’s 3rd birthday, and I can’t believe she’s not a puppy anymore. Eight weeks after her birth, in early November 2011, Kipling joined Zippy, Ajax The Gray, and Eartha Kitt’n in our home.…
The new scene takes shape as Frederick Waltzcrop, with Camoustra and Frenalto, two of the names from the actual play, my own wicked version of Flotsam and Jetsom, find a place to live while living on Fidalgo Island. What better place than a hand-built, stone castle. There is a real castle house here on the…
Here are a couple photos of my home in Anacortes on Fidalgo Island, part of the San Juan Islands. In my new holiday story for 2012, Bracelet (click to read), the main character loves to walk the island, teaches art, as my own parents did, worries about the future, and is shocked to learn she…
Jane Isaac invited me to write a Guest Post about my home in The San Juan Islands for her terrific blog and I accepted her invitation on the spot. Jane Isaac is a wonderful friend and author who has accomplished a writer’s life dream goal: she published her first novel and it is receiving…