I took this photograph of a Beautiful Butterfly in our Back yard (I WILL NOT write back       yard as one word, and you can’t make me!!), next to the asparagus Bed. When #4 daughter was wee, she became enchanted by small blue-and-black caterpillars. She pretended…

My cat barfed on the couch and I sat in it. How’s that for a unique excuse? And, sadly, it’s true. Katya, my 12-year-old kitty, has psychogenic alopecia. She licks her fur off. If you’ve ever been licked by a cat, you know that their…

I just love it when I’m asked to talk. It happens so seldom. But Mike Murphy of Emerging Novelists did just that, and posted the interview. It’s starting to think about being Spring in these parts. We had a couple of mild days, just to…