My husband and I like to get Net Flix DVDs of movies. He loves historical fiction and war stories. I like most everything, but especially true stories. Somehow they have a special meaning for me. And I am so impressed with other authors who write about their own true life stories without cleaning them up [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Based on a True Story
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adjustment, humor, persecution, survival, true story on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Talking to India
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I played tennis this morning as is my custom on evey Tuesday and Thursday, baring a rain storm, a wind storm, or an absent fourth player who forgot to come and play. This morning’s conversation started out with an update of what maladies have befallen our tennis group and their families, or if we are [...]
Independence
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m still sorking on my website, http://www.alicerene.com. It may not be perfect and there are a lot of website professionals who would like to sell me their expertise to try to make it perfect, but their charges are more than I think it is worth. Maybe I’m wrong. But then again, I’m not sure that [...]
For Readers to Know About
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week’s reading included the 2009 California Drivers Manuel with all the old and new rules for driving your vehicle on streets, alleyways, and highways, in the fog, in the snow, on icy roads, and at dusk. And then there are the rules for minors, seniors, and drunks. there are different rules for cars, pedestrians, [...]
Annoyed!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It came in the mail the other day … the letter telling me I had to renew my driver’s license. No driving test, just the written and en eye test. The eye test is nothing, just put your glasses on and you’re in business. But the driver’s test is another story. I had to get [...]
Pendulum, please swing back to “Normal”
Posted in Uncategorized on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The last several days have been “bad.” My mom alwasy said the pendulum always swiwngs from good to bad to good and on and on. I’ve been at “bad” for a while. First the water heater died and then the freezer stopped working. I had to grind a fortune of spoiled defrosted food down my [...]
Harsh Parenting
Posted in Uncategorized on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every time I do an event it is different from any other. The last one was yet another book club, I thought, but boy, was I in for a surprise. What happened was that two book clubs combined for my visit and there were close to thirty people in the room, all seated in four [...]
Different People-Different Interests
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday afternoon I signed Becoming Alice at Border’s Bookstore in Thousand Oaks. They had a whole section set up for me with seating for about 20 people, a rack showing about 15 copies of my book face out, a table covered by a bright fire-engine red table cloth, and –to topit all off– a microphone. [...]
