27 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS

     Ok, decorations are up and cards are mailed – I even wrapped a couple of presents (a rotten task standing on the basement floor with my icky hip/back!!).  The weather has  even turned a little colder – but I can really wait for snow for a while. If I try really hard, I may even [...]

PHOTOS

     Check the web site (edisonliteraryreview.org) for photos of the reading. Tony Gruenewald took them – great job!

ELR READING AND CHRISTMAS

     Reading at the South Brunswick Library last Sunday for the Edison LIterary Review was great!!! Many thanks to Hank Kalut, the Library and the South Brunswick Arts Commission for the opportunity.  Tony, John and I were featured – then 8 of the contributors to Volume 8 read their work. Thanks to  Davis Crews, John [...]

AND SO IT GOES; SEEKING HELP FOR PUTTING BOOK TOGETHER

     Okay – no one said it would be easy – BUT it is time for a breath break! John is home and doing well – still not back to normal, but getting there. Car will probably be fixed on Monday and meanwhile we have a loaner.
     I am actually putting together a book (not [...]

AND SO IT GOES

     If you have the same weird sense of  humor that we have – or have been forced to have – you will laugh and not be surprised that I spent the beginning of September in the hospital (where else?). Had congestive heart failure – sounds worse than it is, but it did have all [...]

WOW OF A CRUISE

      Got home from the cruise to Bermuda yesterday. Missed the hurricane – thank God – did have some rough seas the last day. The whole family was there 13 of us, 8 adults and 5 kids ranging from almost 8 to almost 17. Good weather, little rain but since they spent most of their [...]

STILL IT RAINS

     I guess I am not totally bummed – there has been some “sorta”  sun between showers.  My flowers will not bloom without sun – 2 petunias and lots of geranium leaves – if you look hard one bud, definitely not blooming!
     Grandsons here last night (ages eleven and almost eight) for a sleepover – told [...]

JULY ALMOST GONE

     It has been a great summer of poetry so far – checkout Barron’s Poets’ Wednesday, Middletown Public Library’s Last Thursday and a new reading at Frank’s Cafe in Red Bank.  Also, Tony Greuenewald’s new book “The Secret History of New Jersey” is out – available on Amazon.
     John’s surgery will be after we get [...]

SUMMER – OH YEAH?

     It has been really too wet and all this gray makes me sad and lethargic.  And it has been wet!  Every time I think the yard cannot get soggier – it does get soggier.  So, I put all my summer stuff out in the house -turquoise and shells and tea lights in sand. Maybe [...]

LOTS OF POETRY

     Diane is a GEM!!  The festival on the 17th was quite wonderful. Stacey Balkun and Zach Lichtmann, reading for ELR, were wonderful – new voices for many of the people there.  It is great when we are exposed to the young and fresh new writers, and these two did a good job of bringing [...]