From the age of five, I lived in one of the classic perfect cities, San Francisco. In my hometown (more a village), Paris Hill in Maine, I had had the freedom to wander into the woods, up and down the road, across the way into the golf course and climbing all the trees within sight. …
Many of the most important events in our lives are the most difficult to write about. Before I began writing Salsa Dancing with Pterodactyls, many of my friends and acquaintances were starting families or desiring to start families. Several of these women were faced with difficulties. They were infertile or suffered successive miscarriages. Their courage and …
Salsa Dancing with Pterodactyls pays tribute to one of the most influential women in my life, the dancer and teacher, Evelyn King, who—after a successful career as a ballerina as well as a modern and stage performer—turned her talents to teaching girls and young women. Every Saturday morning, a half dozen of us climbed the stairs …
This post first appeared in September on Classic and Cozy Books When was the last time you read a book or saw a film that had no physical setting? That is, was not placed in a location you as reader or viewer recognized as at least a possibility? I’m currently watching a rerun of Star Trek …
Salsa Dancing with Pterodactyls is my second contemporary novel. It is a stand-alone book about so many aspects of women’s lives that I have found it difficult to put limits on the categories the book explores. Emily Burdis is a woman in her mid-thirties; the proverbial “thirty-something” state of mind for many women. The baby-clock …