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Four women form bonds that will help them overcome living in a far away military compound
span style="font-size: medium"> Four women from varying backgrounds meet aboard the USS General Mayo bound for Korea in 1946 to join their Army officer husbands. The diverse young women forge bonds that will last them throughout the journey, their lives in a military compound, with a promise to meet again in twenty-five years. Trudy Cavanaugh is a young newly-wed, married to the heir to the Cavanaugh publishing empire; Maggie Gorski is from Chicago, the comic relief of the group, who has two unmanageable boys and a heart as big as her home town, Chicago; Nell Martin, a west Texas farm | |  | | MY ASHES OF DEAD LOVERS GARAGE SALE
Author’s Note: This book is a selection of articles written over a ten year period for Suburban Newspapers, in Fort Worth, TX. Essentially, the title sprang from a conversation I had with my Tall Blond Friend as we held a joint garage sale.
Looking at some of the items, Tall Blond Friend asked how I got them. My reply was something along the lines of: “You remember old What’s His Name. Before he rode off into the sunset with a younger woman, he gave me this ________(fill in the blank) I think it should bring at least a quarter.”
And so on, with three or four cast-off items from old boyfriends, we marked each piece until it occurred to me that I should call this “My Ashes of Dead Lovers Garage Sale
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Ten years of a column each week makes --- uh - a lot of columns. This is | |  | | MY SECOND ASHES OF DEAD LOVERS GARAGE SALE
This is the second volume of selected humor/human interest columns I wrote for a suburban newspaper over a ten-year period. The publisher has graciously granted me the rights to re-publish. This job was the best I ever had: I got paid, essentially, to have fun. Enjoy, and share.
| |  | | ONCE A BRAT ALWAYS A BRAT
From my birth in 1938 to my army officer father's retirement in 1958, I traversed the globe, from Asia to Europe. Other Brats stories are also included.
As one of the first dependents to be sent overseas at the end of WWII, eight-year old Marilyn Celeste Morris received her very own orders from The War Department.
p class="MsoNormal">From Seoul, Korea to Linz, Austria, she traversed the globe from 1938 to 1958 with her Army Officer father, mother and younger brothers. Between assignments in the primitive
p class="MsoNormal">world of the Far East, to the sublime luxury of exploring castles in Bavaria, the family shuttled between the various Stateside Forts: Bragg, Bliss, Hood and Sill.
p class="MsoNo | |  | | SABBATH'S GIFT
When New York writer, Joanna Elliott, flees her abusive husband to the Texas Hill Country, she and her six-year old son, Jason, unwittingly become a killer's prey. Despite Realtor Tommy Joe Greenleaf's warning that Wanda and Ralph Spencer had mysteriously disappeared from the remote farmhouse ten years earlier, Joanna moves in, and makes the sunroom into her office. Joanna adopts a cat from the local veterinarian, Jim Kelly, who tells her that Sabbath "had belonged to a witch." Immediately, unexplained events unfold: Joanna is locked overnight inside the storage shed, footprints appear under the sun room windows, and Jason's dog, Mournful, is found poisoned. What more can happen?
span style="text-indent: 0.6in;">The black cat crouched in the tall weeds, tail twitching, yellow-gold eyes narrowing as if in deep thought -- watching as the gray Chevrolet moved past, down the highway into the distance./span>span style="text-indent: 0.6in;"> /span>
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Best selling author Joanna Elliott and her growing family are looking for another house because, quite frankly, finding bodies in the cellar and a psychotic old woman kidnapping her son were not events conducive to bringing her new child into the world.
She discovers a charming old Victorian mansion owned only by women of the Emily Harris family, but the remaining heiress has no descendants to inherit.
Once the family moves in, however, psychic black cat Sabbath encounters spirits determined to continue the legend, once again putting the family in peril,
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p class="MsoNormal">Emily Harris smiled contentedly as she put the last stitch in her embroidered pillowcase.
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Emily could hear her three children playing in their attic | |  | | STORM WARNING
What would happen when a bomber from the nearby Air Force base is flung by a fierce tornado into the county’s largest shopping mall? Begin the day with the mall manager, his assistant, the security officer and Howard the Weatherman, whose predictions are always uncannily accurate, and in this case, deadly.
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p class="MsoBodyText">Follow the Mall Manager, his assistant, and the head of the security force as they make their rounds, noting owners of shops, customers and ever vigilant for any sign of disorder in their enclos | |  | | THE CARDS WE'RE DEALT AND THE JOKER IS LUPUS
When she was suddenly assaulted by myriad baffling symptoms of joint pain and extreme fatigue, the author embarked on an intensive search for diagnosis and treatment of what would be diagnosed as systemic lupus Erythematosus, a little-known autoimmune disease that promised to destroy her body, her mind and her spirit. From the pages of her intimate daily journal, we travel with her through chronic joint pain, frustration, anger and grief for her former self to her current state of playing the cards she was dealt.
She has found support and friendships with an online Yahoo group known fondly as Lupies, and shares some of their often outrageous, somewhat irreverent and always heart-felt stories and comments.
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Impoverished but proud Vanessa Danforth is forced from he mother’s home by her nmew stepfather’s treachery in 1860s England.
After graduating from stenographer’s school, she accepts a position at the estate of famed world explorer, Harrison Courtland.
Made a widower by his wife’s tragic death in the Himalayas, Courtland has retreated into his work….while Vanni forges friendships with his daughter Katrin and the handsome physician from the neighboring estate.
As Vanni encourages Courtland to unearth the ancient ruins at the edge of his property she discovers not only a stunning secret and a hidden treasure, but also her own heart’s desire.
Impoverished but proud Vanessa Danforth is forced from he mother’s home by her nmew stepfather’s treachery in 1860s England.
p class="MsoNormal">After graduating from stenographer’s school, she accepts a position at the estate of famed world explorer, Harrison Courtland.
p class="MsoNormal">Made a widower by his wife’s tragic death in the Himalayas, Courtland has retreated into his work….while Vanni forges friendships with his daughter Katrin and the handsome physician from the neighboring estate.
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