A New Look
Well – the blog is back for 2011. I’ve been quiet for a couple of weeks – because Webmaster John and I have been busy redesigning my wesite. I love the new…
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Happy Holidays!
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas… …and a Happy New Year. Janet X
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Crossing the country on a train.
I’ve just been to Montreal and back – on a train. The journey was over ten hours each way – and I loved it. Seriously – I did. It’s a great…
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Trying My Hand at Thanksgiving
It’s hard for someone who hasn’t grown up with Thanksgiving to understand the place it holds in people’s hearts here in the USA. However, I have seen images of the Macy’s parade…
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Tales to Tell
On Sunday, I visited a craft fair – with some truly beautiful things for sale – but strangely enough, I didn’t feel inspired (nor did I buy anything) until I left the…
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My New Toy
My greatest fear is not the dark, or enclosed places or even spiders. It’s being trapped somewhere with nothing to read. It happened to me once. On a delayed flight, I finished…
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Take that Al Capone!
Last weekend, we hired a car and headed up the Hudson Valley looking for some of that autumn foliage for which this part of the world is justifiably famous. It was pretty…
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Invasion of the Romance Writers.
My first US writers’ conference this past weekend was quite something. The New Jersey Romance Writers conference is one of the biggest of the RWA chapter conferences – somewhere around 300 writers…
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Things I like about NYC #3: Bridges
With the weather still good, we set out to walk from Manhattan to Brooklyn on the Brooklyn Bridge – and back via the Manhattan Bridge. Both bridges are spectacular… On the…