The Backstreet Of Portofino

The Backstreet Of Portofino

      In The Beginning  In ancient times before the internet, cell phones, and Amazon, my husband and I took our first trip out of the U.S.A.  How did that happen? My little secret was: I filled out all the information postcards from various travel magazines...
The Mysterious Red Roach Motel

The Mysterious Red Roach Motel

We spend much of the summer months at our home on the Lake of the Ozarks in mid-southern Missouri. Just off the main Highway 54 is a very small hamlet of Roach, Missouri. Who ever named it had it in for the roaches there! During the 1940’s and 1950’s,...
Pots and Jars

Pots and Jars

On April 1, 1987 my family and I left Sonic corporate for the franchisee world. We had the opportunity to buy the remaining six corporate Sonic Drive-Ins in Arizona. The Arizona drive-ins had not done well with the Midwest Sonic name identification and were operating...
One O’Clock Jump

One O’Clock Jump

At sometime during your early professional life one is presented with certain photo compositions that one did not create. This composition photo belonged to a student of mine. I offered to buy the photo, but the student willingly gave her full permission for me to use...
Evening Water Tulip

Evening Water Tulip

Ahem… as part of my disclosure and honesty of writing, I will pull a George Washington-type confession in what exactly is the history of this painting (I did not cut down a cherry tree, as George confessed to his father). So here’s the truth: the time was...

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