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Grew up in Michigan, the daughter of a librarian and a junk food factory manager. Food for thought....
Married shockingly young and moved to Florida where I continued my college education, receiving a diploma in foreign language education from the University of Central Florida at 21. Moved to France following love after the predictable break from my equally young first husband. Married and spent the next twenty years operating a series of shops dedicated to the sale of fashion jewellery and gifts, noteably nautical decoration. Cupid brought me two lovely daughters before abandoning me in the dust once again. Throughout the years, my desk drawer filled itself with bits of paper stapled together on which I dribbled stories, thoughts and trivia...more


Thanksgiving in France
Yesterday was Thanksgiving.

It isn’t celebrated in Europe for obvious historical reasons. Squanto lived in Massachusetts.

So, faced with a dilemma about what to do regarding this pretty much sacred American tradition of Thanksgiving, I decided that I’d do a scaled down version of dinner, since it’s a regular work day and no body would get home until 7-8ish.
My eldest daugh... read more »
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Published on November 24, 2010 05:53 • 91 views • Tags: lifestyle-and-humor
Average rating: 4.12 · 32 ratings · 22 reviews · 1 distinct work
Ménage à 20, Tales with a hook
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chapter 10 of the Manoir at Abbot's Wood (Humor)
1 chapters   —   updated Sep 29, 2010 01:52am
Description: Debra gets over an attempted break-in and decides to purchase a guard dog, but gets more than she expects.
Into Blue (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated May 27, 2010 08:04am
Description: a dying man's introspection
Floyd and Sally (Romance)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 30, 2010 09:57am
Description: a short love story with a twist
traffic jam (Romance)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 30, 2010 09:04am
Description: love/singing at first sight?
Blind date (Romance)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 30, 2010 08:59am
Description: "I fall in love without seeing you" a short story listed amongst the finalists in dec 2009's Global short Story Competition
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Although I'm usually type "A" personality and must read a book from cover to cover, even when I don't like it, I've put this one down several times. I'm not sure why.

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This book starts out with the most moving description of someone dying that I've read in a very long time. Other events are described with such poetry that I'm devouring this story which is admittedly a bit dark, yet intriguing.

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Henry Ford
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
Henry Ford

Charles Frazier
“He is so full of manure, that man, we could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him." Ruby about her dad in "Cold Mountain”
Charles Frazier

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

Jim Henson
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
Jim Henson

Thomas A. Edison
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas A. Edison




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