The Writer’s Idea Book by Jack Heffron includes more than 800 prompts. I randomly opened the book to “Chapter Fourteen: Your Fifteen Minutes.” Each chapter begins with a famous writer’s quote. Chateaubriand was assigned this chapter with: “Let us not be too scornful of fame: nothing is lovelier, unless it be virtue.” Heffron was a […]
Nancy Kress Science Fiction Writer Quotes
Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer, born in January, 1948. Her 1991 novella, Beggars in Spain, won the Hugo and Nebula awards. Since then she expanded it into a novel. In 2012 she also won the Nebula Award for Best Novella for “After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall.”
Memorial Day
What did you do this Memorial Day? We took a mile walk, had chicken for lunch and strawberry shortcake for snack. Then we prepared for the HOA’s annual garage sale this coming Saturday. Our eighteen year old, Ariana, cleared out her room for a re-do since she will be staying with us during the week […]
USS Potomac More Photos
Before we boarded the USS Potomac Crew’s Bunks Engine room In the Radio Room listening to recording of FDR speech. Tug boats helping large cargo ship go back out to sea as we passed by.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's USS Potomac
Tonight I went for a three and a half hour cruise on the USS Potomac with my husband and members of his kayak club. The Potomac was built in 1934 as a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter called Electra. “She was converted to serve as a presidential yacht and commissioned into the United States Navy in […]
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s USS Potomac
Tonight I went for a three and a half hour cruise on the USS Potomac with my husband and members of his kayak club. The Potomac was built in 1934 as a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter called Electra. “She was converted to serve as a presidential yacht and commissioned into the United States Navy in […]
Aegean Dream by Dario Ciriello
Aegean Dream by Dario Ciriello is the book we are reading this month in our reading group. It’s a true story set on Greece’s real “Mamma Mia” island of Skopelos. Amazon’s description is: Comic and tragic by turns, Aegean Dream is a story of love, resilience, and the power of friendship. A compelling window on […]