Twenty-five years ago, on July 4th, 1984, my husband, John, our son, Mike, and John’s father, Ray went to the Firecracker 400 at Daytona Speedway. Some historic things happened that day — President Ronald Reagan flew in on Air Force One to start the race with that popular tag, “Gentlemen, start your engines.” AND Richard Petty won his […]
It’s 3:30 in the afternoon and I’m taking a break from tweaking one of my WIPs. As I look out the window, I can literally see the haze of heat rising above the street. It is 100 degrees out there. Hot, humid, like a blanket of sweltering air. Even for me, a person who likes […]
… Will we take the winter off from training. After almost 18 years of year-round training and having at least one big race a year, John & I took the Holidays off to be “normal”. Ha, we won’t be doing that again. Believe me when I say, “You lose fitness much faster than you build it.” […]
John and I flew to Florida on Thusday, packed up the Harley, and got on the road Friday at about 11am. We had some business to take care of a block from TPC, where The Players Tournament was in progress, so got a later start than we wanted, but it worked out perfectly. We mapped a […]
It’s been one month and one day since my last post, wow – time does fly. I’ve been working on revisions and tightening PR for the past few weeks (an agent took an interest, and we’ll see if the changes draw her in) … plus I’m almost done polishing MC (could it interest her as […]
North-easterly winds are blustering, causing the muted unpolished emerald ocean to buck and roll, but the sun is shining an it is a delicious 84 degrees. Yesterday afternoon, I took a long walk along the edge, let the still warm water splash and curl around my toes, and rescued five beautiful purple star-fish. Today, I […]
Woohoo, I’m off to the beach. Taking care of business — and then long runs on the hard packed sand, quality writing time while gazing at the ocean, and catching up on Ghost Whisper. Taking a few good books to read if I feel like soaking up the sun, may swim some laps in the […]
It has been gray and wet and cold for days now and it’s bumming me out. My creative side has disappeared with the sun, leaving behind a dull ache of emptiness. Tequilla is crying out (it seems constantly) — can he be missing Taco that much? I know I do! I find myself looking for […]
Less than 44 hrs ago we were on the top of a volcano (pichincha), amazed with the views of Quito below us. What were we doing in Quito you ask? Last week, we flew to Atlanta to meet the kids and traveled on to Ecuador for the wedding of one of our daughter-in-law’s best friends. […]
Last Tuesday one of our little guys (Taco, our 17 1/2 year old kitty) passed away, leaving a huge hole in our hearts. The house is so empty. He was our active, talkative little guy. Tequilla has been moping about — crying for his friend to come play. Very sad! We know he lived a […]