Second Chances is FREE on Kindle until March 2nd!
My novel, Second Chances, is FREE on Kindle through March 2nd! I hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to become acquainted with my writing.
Singing in Hard Times
The conditions of the Dust Bowl pressed the farmers and ranchers into despair. Too many days with the sun blocked out by the Black Blizzards. Fine grains of sand covering everything, including the linings of the lungs. A losing battle with locust, grasshoppers and drought that devoured any hope of…
Irish Immigration and the Orphan Trains Changed the Direction of my Life
The gift shop shelves heaved with books covered by grainy photos of children huddled around coal driven steam engines. Dressed in turn of the century clothes, some ragamuffins carried grief like luggage, but others appeared wide-eyed with adventure. “Orphan trains,” my brother explained. “Those children were adopted here in the…
Stitches in Time
In most cultures, the older women pass on the skills they have acquired over a lifetime to the next generation like a needle pulling thread in a running stitch. Just as my life as a mother and wife started and my mother’s wealth of knowledge of all things domestic was…