: About Me

Four years ago my husband and I retired, sold everything we owned in Massachusetts, moved to Florida so he could work in Disney World for a few months a year and bought an RV so I could see the USA - a childhood goal sparked by Dinah Shore and "Route 66." We traveled with a circus, toured the perimeter of the US, spent quality time in upstate NY and realized that despite my saying it would never happen, we'd made Florida home.
When we began our travels I posted my journal and photos for friends to read and many encouraged me to publish my insights. Thank you Helium for giving me the forum to do so. Right now, we're not traveling far but we're on quite a journey: our oldest daughter was married in September, her sister will marry in April, and we're becoming active in our new hometown so look for essays/poems/stories about journeys of the heart for the next little while.

My passion is ...

Learning

I know too much about ...

Other people

My parents always told me ...

to "pray like hell." and "brush my teeth"

My childhood ambition ...

when I learned that because I was female I couldn't be pope or president I decided being a phenomenal parent was the most influential thing I could do.

My favorite memory ...

staying up all night with my BF from high school whenever she returned from which ever country she'd been working in.

Why I write ...

Because I see things differently than other people, and writing helps me understand what it is I'm seeing.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Eyre Affair/Gray's Anatomy/the Roadhouse, Spa and NPR on Sirius

My first job ...

receptionist in a Doctor's office

My best moment ...

When I took a risk and told the truth...

My inspiration ...

My Dad, My God, My Life

Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book reviews: Lost City Radio, by Daniel Alarcon

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BOOK Review Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon Set in a nameless city and the rural jungle that is beyond it, "Lost City Radio" is named for the weekly radio program hosted by Norma, our protagonist, who reads the names of people missing as a result of a war that ended ten years before we enter the story. Everyone within the sound of her voice trusts Norma with their loved ones' memory and the hope that a reunion will come about some day. One day, the day we live through and with Norma, a reunion of sorts takes place when a ten -year -old child from the jungle town #1797 brings her a list o...

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