[wp_social_ninja id=”215974″ platform=”reviews”] CHAPTER I Sometimes I think about the mornings, gray and wet, and so cold that my breath looked like steam from a pot of hot tea…except there was no hot tea. The mud then was thick from the pre-dawn rain, and seemed to cover everything. But it didn’t matter, because the mud was the earth and the earth was life, and anything that reminded us of the living was good. But I’m getting much too far ahead of myself. It’s only fair to tell you the beginning, so that you’ll know how I got to the end. ##### My name is Hanna Berkenski, and the…
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(ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble) Continue the series: WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28 I got this book today and I’ll explain all about that in a minute, but I have to tell ya’ that I think it’s really freaky trying to talk to a pencil and a spiral notebook. I didn’t even get the color I wanted, which was red. Instead I wound up with white! Can you imagine anything in my house being white and staying that way for three months? I’m a kid and I get dirty hands all the time. And Kirby…if he even passes by…
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(ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble) Continue the series: THE END Just because Bernie Bolton turned ten that summer, don’t get the idea it was a great summer for her…because it wasn’t. In fact, it was probably the most awful summer of her whole life, so far. But, don’t get the idea it was a hideous summer either, because it wasn’t. What it was, was the summer she would remember forever…the summer she started to grow up for real. The first day of fifth grade was tomorrow, and Bernie was so excited she could hardly stand it.…
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Bernice Blossom Bolton–Bernie–is a nine-and-a-half-year-old force to be reckoned with as she charges head-first into the 21st century. Feisty and fun, liberated and opinionated, she’s ready to take on the world. (ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble) Continue the series: CHAPTER 1 THE ULTIMATE WORST If you asked any kid in the whole entire world to make a list of the worst possible things that could happen, you’d probably get a list that looked something like Bernie’s: Everybody forgets birthday. Everybody, including Santa, forgets Christmas. Father planning to marry a skinny lady with a four year-old…
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Born in Ohio, but spending many years in New York and North Carolina, I now live in Richmond, Virginia, with my wonderful husband , Bob, one dog, two cats, and 18 homeless outdoor cats which we feed, and have had neutered with the help of a wonderful local volunteer rescue group. As a Director, Drama teacher, Playwright, and Costume Designer for the past 30 years, I have won numerous awards for my plays, and directed or costumed over 60 plays to date. I have also written 25 plays, which have won many awards over the years. Among them: the Charles M. Getchell Southeastern Theatre Conference New Play Award, the Charlotte…
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Mourning the Marigolds: Eccentric, sixtyish Bessie Levinson she sits on a park bench in Russell Square Park in London and tells her life story to Charlie Hampton, a stranger. Elsewhere in the park is Father Frank McAllister, an Irish priest, also in his sixties, strolling with his niece. He’s telling Julie a very similar story… Frank’s and Bessie’s love affair unfolded and ended. However, on this particular chilly autumn afternoon, with Bessie’s beloved marigolds about to gasp their last, there’s a chance meeting between two old lovers… A Day in the Life of Eleanor Duncan: Eleanor Duncan is a 72-year-old homeless woman living on a park bench in Central Park.…
