So it goes...

Kurt Vonnegut was, no is, my favorite author. My favorite book of his is 'Welcome to the Monkey House', because it is such a clear reflection of humankind. It's a collection of short stories and I've read my copy until the pages are frayed and soft on the corners.

My second favorite book of his is 'Saughterhouse V', and if you've never ( Read more... )

Calderwood Books is open for submissions -

www.calderwoodbooks.com

I'm moving this blog over to this addy (I use this one more anyhow)
I'm just posting here in case anyone wants to book-mark it:

http://samanthawinston.blogspot.com/

I'm just not organized enough to have two blogs!
LOL
I will use this one to pop in and read my 'friends' pages'
:-)

It's very quiet around here. The dogs are sleeping. My son is on duty at the fire department. My daughter is at a horse show in Normandy with her friend. My husband is at the polo club. And I finished cleaning the house, finished formating a book, and am looking over some contracts and trying to decide what to do with my projects ( Read more... )

I spent four days struggling to master the formating for the Siren's newsletter, and I finally did it. It was such a thrill to see it finally uploaded online and looking decent. For so many days I'd stared at missing text, huge blank spots, uneven lines, and different sized fonts that I thought I'd go mad. I wanted to throw my computer out the ( Read more... )

Happy Martin Luther King Day!

"It is no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dear Mr. King - I miss you. I wish you were here to give fiery speeches and stir the American people into action.
What happened to the ideal of nonviolent means of resolving

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It's SOOOooooo over, lol ( Read more... )

It's raining...Again ( Read more... )

Several bits of news hit me with mixed emotions this new year. First of all, I heard a very dear friend died, and that made me sad. Then I heard one of my husband's ex-patrons was killed in a freak accident, and that shocked me. (My husband went to his funeral yesterday and said it was a sad, sad event.) Then my son announced he wasn't going back ( Read more... )