Hi-di-ho, friends! I hope you are enjoying your holiday weekend by doing something you really enjoy. Let me share with you a little about my swell adventure doing something that I enjoy: Wartime Reenacting. It all began with a brain child that everyone said I was crazy to put the work into. I wanted to build and transport 1200 miles, an early 1940s wartime one-room apartment for an exciting step back into history at "D-Day Conneaut, Ohio." I had a vision, which was different

Hi-di-ho, friends and hello summer! The heat in Florida hasn't kept me from a new project that I want to share with you. I've taken out my never-used tool belt filled with gadgets I have no idea how to use. LOL In preparation for the nation's largest WWII event in Conneaut, Ohio in mid-August, I am in the process of building a living historian booth with the help of my dad (who is showing me how to use the tools!) Good Lord, I cannot even hammer a nail without mucking it up!

Hi-di-ho, friends! It has been too long, and boy have I missed you, missed sharing with you my 1940s experiences held at the end of last year into this year. So many things have happened in my six-month hiatus from blogging, that I admit, it's been a little hard to focus on putting words to my recent WWII-era living history venues. All of which had been fun and interesting, experiences where I had to step out of my personal comfort zone yet I walked away with new confidence a

My Final Research Travelogue - All Aboard! Hi-di-ho, my friends! When last we caught up on my research trip for A Moment Forever, we visited Lakeland, Florida and the story of the swans. Well, today, I'd like to steam ahead and share with you my search for the Orange Blossom Special. With dear hubby at the wheel, our destination was the Florida Railroad Museum in Parrish, Florida just ten miles north of Bradenton on the Gulf coast. The museum grounds, railcars, and tracks are

Hi-di-ho, friends! I hope you're having a wonderful summer and enjoying some vacation time. Maybe jumping into the car and taking a few day trips to destinations on a gas tank? I have one of those books "Florida Day Trips on a Tank of Gas" and have made a few fun stops, one of which I'll write about on a later date. It got me thinking about my trusty ten gallon gas tank and just how far my car could take me. Ten gallons of gasoline may not seem like a lot today, but try using

Hi-Di-Ho, friends it's Memorial Day here in America, a time to remember and honor, a time to celebrate the memory of those noble heroes who gave all in the fight to preserve our liberty. It's appropriate that A Moment Forever releases on this occasion not only for the significance of the day or it being a novel set during WWII but also because this story takes the reader on a sentimental, emotional journey of love and deception. Today was also the day that one of our romanti

GETTING FROM THERE TO HERE - ABOUT THE BOOK Hi-Di-Ho, my friends! Well, today is the big day: The Cover Reveal of my upcoming novel, A Moment Forever! Some of you know that this, much anticipated, novel developed as a Jane Austen Fan Fiction readers would come to know as My Dearest Darling. It posted on two forums beginning Veteran's Day 2014 - May 2015. No longer a fan fiction novel, I am over the moon happy, positively lulu to announce that it is being re-born as a rich, WW

Hi-di-ho, friends! Well, I'll be honest right up front: I have never been one for poetry. But sometimes stanzas and verses just grab a person and won't let go. I'm a pretty straightforward New York girl and if I'm going to read poetry, I'd like for it to read in the same way. Honestly, I find no literary enjoyment in scratching my head while trying to figure out what the heck the poem means, or what the poet intended it to mean. Lord knows, I'm in my head enough! Like my cof

Hi-di-ho friends! Just recently, I packed for a business trip to Washington DC and found myself chuckling at what "essentials" I needed to roll into a tiny carry-on suitcase. The size of the travel case hasn't changed much since the 1940s but the contents sure have! How on earth was I going to fit six days of clothing and toiletries, not to mention laptop with phone and computer chargers and outerwear? Then I considered how different those essentials are living in the warmth

Hi-di-ho, friends! A recent conversation with my dad sparked the idea for this article on movies during the '40s. He'll probably kill me when he finds out that I'm sharing a boyhood story of his, but hey, he has to figure out by now that I'm an author - everything he tells me is bound to end up in a book or blog! So, let's talk movies. I love them! Cinema was a different experience than it is today and although television was "technically" ready by the 1940s, war production