Scrapbook of Secrets: A Cumberland Creek Mystery (Chapter Two)
This is chapter two of Scrapbook of Secrets, which will be published February 2012 by Kensington Publishing. If you want to read chapter one first, click here. And, as always, I’d love to hear from you. <I saw your local newspaper is hiring. They ran an ad on the Web. They say the “bar is high.” Jeez, do you think you could do it? (GRIN)>—Yolonda <The bar is as high as my relatively low-slung ass. Even so, I think the job is a night job and I am half dead by then. I...
Read MoreHappy Holidays!
My daughters, Emma and Tess, on the German Farm at the Frontier Culture Museum, Staunton, Va. , where my husband works and my daughters volunteer. Thank you all for the friendship and support this year. Stay tuned, 2012 is going to be a GREAT year!...
Read MoreMrs. Rowe and Me: It’s not all about the Pie
This essay was originally published in the News Leader and is currently in my e-book (HONEY, I’M SORRY I KILLED YOUR AQUASAURS) on Amazon, on sale for 99 cents until after the Holiday. Enjoy! Life stories rarely thrill me. I hardly ever read biographies; they frustrate me because often the reader only gets a sense of the subject’s accomplishments—not of the person. So often biographies leave so many questions for me and I find them hard to relate to because often they are about men,...
Read MoreFive things I thought about during my morning run:
1. I should be running on the track at the gym, but I can’t resist these warm-ish mornings. 2. So today is the last day the kids are at school. So I’m shopping today… 3. The sky looks like a big gray dome with little puffy clouds. Dappled. 4. Finally got my cards last night and they are very festive. 5. My strange doctor’s appointment yesterday.
Read MoreFive things I thought about during my morning run:
1. Bright blue patches of sky poking through the gray. 2. My family trip to NYC to celebrate Emma’s birthday. All she wants is to see a show. That’s all. 3. Tess and her cello. She was overwhelmed last night. It was the first time she played with a large group. 4. Am I ready for Christmas? No. My cards will be late this year. What can I say? 5. White Christmas Pie. Scroll down. It’s a great recipe.
Read MoreWhite Christmas Pie
This recipe was first published in Mrs.Rowe’s Little Book of Southern Pies, (Random House, 2009). I’m posting here as a way of wishing you all a Happy Holiday Season. Peace. Love. White Christmas pie. Clipped out of an old newspaper, and pasted to a notebook page belonging to Mrs. Rowe’s sister, Bertha, this pie is a festive-looking and showy pie offering a delicate almond-coconut flavor, and a spongy, frothy texture somewhere between meringue and marshmallow, with a hint of...
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