Just Released On Amazon

Morningside Drive will be available on other online bookstores shortly. Thank you, Claudia

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*This cozy/mystery book is an easy read, without violence and the romance is behind closed doors.

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Following the sudden death of her husband, a grieving Joy Webb Garner leaves her Fifth Avenue apartment in NYC and returns home to Daytona Beach, FL to confront her past. She fled her beach-side community as an 18-year-old college freshman who just found out she was pregnant and believed her father was a murderer. Thirty years later, Joy finds a lot of resentment and slammed doors on her way to uncovering the truth.

Composting

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Remember Those Days

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Streaming AKA Screaming

Metaphor Dice January 2, 2024

Today I rolled the Metaphor Dice. The words; wonder, memory and unspoken spoke to me. If you would
like to use the words in a poem or short story in a post, please do. After you post, copy its link in my comment section to share your writing.

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Unspoken

Memory is an unspoken wonder

Disappearing quickly over time

Delete the past to make space for the present . . . or vice verse.

We cling to the passage of time.

Fond memories become fonder, an unspoken wonder of days gone bye.

Happy New Year 2024

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Inconvenient Weather

In Florida, weathermen or weather-people, to be politically correct; now refer to weather as inconvenient.

Well. . .your feet might get wet, your hair blown, and you’ll have to follow a car’s tail-lights to get home. But, you’ll be safe, in a down pour.

It is inconvenient; but catchy and cute. Isn’t it?

The expression hasn’t caught on in the north. Weather people announce the above freezing temperatures void of express, with little regard for the lack of sunshine.

Inconvenient weather is normal, and expected.

I don’t know what’s happening in other parts of the country.

So, on a normal fall day in the north, we drove to Indian Ladder Farms to buy apples. The variety of apples is outstanding and their sugar apple donuts memorable.

As we were leaving, I saw a restored Jaguar, and asked the owner if I could take a picture. He offered to take a picture of me in the vehicle.

We got to chatting. He and his wife are Florida Snow Birds and owners of a window washing service, Mark Washing Windows. They have a place in Port Orange, twenty-five miles from me.

They don’t think Florida’s weather is inconvenient and will be heading south after the holidays.

Is your weather inconvenient?

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