I just spent two wonderful days at the Betsy Hotel in South Beach. The Betsy sits on Ocean Drive across from Lummus Park in the Art Deco district. Recently renovated from the ground up, the Betsy is a historic property listed in the Florida’s State Registry of Historic Places. The pure white colonial facade of the Betsy shimmers among the crowd of art deco designs along Ocean Drive. ...
My novel, THE SWORD SWALLOWER'S DAUGHTER, yes, the one I'm still revising, draws much from my childhood. My father really was a sword swallower and my mother was a closet chanteuse who played piano and sang with a voice that rivaled the divas of her day. In fact, when I hear Susan Boyle, I think of my mother. She had that kind of voice, but zero confidence.The photo below is my mother playing and ...
I was silenced too long by the sound of my ownheartbeat.Joy in living and grief in the passing of love.I always knew I would write stories,but I dweltin the glow of a thirty-year literary pregnancy.Labor came on without warning.The stories I stored through a thirty year gestationnow speak through the silence, that heartbeatof fear, of failure, of success.I wish sometimes for the old stillness,but ...
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