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Beautiful Ruins: A Perfect Novel for a Weekend Away from It All
The great thing about being a woman of a certain age, which you probably are if you’re reading my blog instead of tweets, is that you have a lot more time to take spontaneous trips. Exactly what Dave...
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Tour of Mexico: Who the Aztecs Were
Mexico Series: Part 4 previous article Last week right after I got back from Mendocino, I read this in The Washington Post: MEXICO CITY (AP) — Archaeologists in Mexico City have unearthed the skulls...
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Mexico: A Love Story
It’s the Dog Days of Summer here. I mean it’s hot. See this picture? That’s pretty much just what 109 degrees looks like. Lucky for me, Dave’s up in Berkeley for a few days, and girls, you know what...
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Templo Mayor: The Excavation
Mexico Series: Part 5 previous article With the excavation of the Templo Mayor we are about to learn more, confirm or amplify what is already known about the Aztecs. (I’m showing this graphic just to...
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The Simple Country Life . . .
When I’m not writing about or traveling to Mexico, I try to live a simple life here in the Sierra foothills, but the month of August found me with a to-do list a mile long. Simple and country and...
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What Do Veracruz, Mexico and an Eggplant Recipe Have in . . .
. . . common? You’d have to wonder, right? Well, I’m up to my eyeballs in eggplants these days—eggplants and proofreading my novel Palace of the Blue Butterfly to put up on Amazon. It’s going...
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A Self-Publishing Writer’s Role Model. Introducing . . .
. . . Erika Robuck. Three years ago when I was fishing around for what to do with my novels now that I was living so far from anything that could in any way resemble a publishing metropolis, I came...
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Elle Newmark: An Inspiring, Bittersweet Story
Elle Newmark was one of my first inspirations for self-publishing. I remember looking at her website, wondering if I could do something like that. How? I had no idea where to start. Once I put it out...
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Where I’ve Been Since I Last Posted
I’d thought about going to the big Self-Publishing Book Expo that was held in NYC October 27. Good thing I didn’t. Sandy, anyone? I went to New Mexico instead to see my daughter. There were some...
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The Mill River Recluse and the Story of Another . . .
. . . self-publishing heroine of mine. Darcie Chan. Here’s the second installment in a series about four women who’ve taken fate in their own hands. I mean, if you don’t do it, no one else will. I’m...
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Mexicotrilogy.com launched: A Celebratory Dinner Al Fresco
Okay, so if we still lived in the Bay Area, we’d probably celebrate the launch of my book and the new website Mexicotrilogy.com at Gary Danko’s, or Boulevard or even the old sentimental favorite Chez...
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Blackberry Picking: Every Summer I Think of This Poem
While I’ve been getting my new website Mexicotrilogy.com up, I’ve been picking blackberries daily, fighting the bees to get to them. They are so dark and sweet I often don’t use sugar with them....
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Thinking about Derek Wolcott, Adrienne Rich and. . .
. . . me. I read an article recently in which a critic made a disparaging remark about women’s blogs, how it was fortunate that so many women out in the sticks had an outlet. An outlet? An outlet? As...
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I Keep Thinking About Something Adrienne Rich . . .
. . . wrote about women and lying. Why? Well, because I’ve been thinking a lot these days about blogging and truth-telling. You know, the opposite of lying. I discovered women’s blogs when I moved out...
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Bird of Paradise: Romantic Suspense Novel Set on the . . .
. . . West coast of Mexico! Finally! After all the proofreading and all the formatting and all the figuring out how to get Palace of the Blue Butterfly on Amazon Books and Goodreads, I‘m starting to...
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Fish Stew: Like One of Ina Garten’s Recipes Only . . .
. . . easier ( and just as good). Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock and not reading my blog or downloading my book( link), you probably know my great affection for Mexico and all things Mexican....
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Antoinette Tuff: The Power of Stories and the Power of . . .
. . . Compassion. A remarkable young woman prevented another shooting in a school, and she did it without a gun. For a number of years, I taught ninth grade English in Oakland Unified School District,...
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Lookaway, Lookaway: North Carolina and the Not-So-New . . .
. . . South As everyone around here knows, I’ve been sick, really sick. After several days of terrible pain, Dave drove me down the mountain to the emergency room—otherwise known as The Village of the...
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Speaking Truth to Power
For the next three months, I’m going to be blogging over at my novel’s website MexicoTrilogy.com, which I set up to market my book. I should probably be Tweeting, and Facebooking, and sticking pictures...
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Affordable Care Act: It’s the Law
I was all set to start blogging on my author site Mexico Trilogy.com as part of my marketing campaign, just something light and breezy, and then –- damn! — if those tea party Republicans didn’t get on...
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