by jlo | Feb 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Something to get your blood pumping this morning. Amen! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGd9MYAiK8A
by jlo | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Baked eggs are a wonderful and often overlooked treat. My own personal recipe for baked eggs, fine-tuned on hectic mornings during my office-worker-on-a-budget days, went something like this: “Melt some butter in a little dish. Swish it around. Break in an egg...
by jlo | Feb 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
My new short story, “Luck, Be a Lady” is now live at Modern Retro Woman. The assignment was to write a short-short story based on the above picture from a 1958 Saturday Evening Post. Fun! My story starts out, “With a swish of her satin skirt, Midge...
by jlo | Feb 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
“My day for the frilly gowns of organdy and lace is over–henceforth I must wear the richer hues and materials of the matron. But I shall never be indifferent to dress. It is a very foolish woman who is–just as foolish as the one who makes it the...
by jlo | Feb 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
I was saddened today to hear about the death of Shirley Temple Black. As a dimpled, winsome child star in the 1930s, she cheered up millions of moviegoers during the dark days of the Great Depression. (In my current novel-in-progress, I’ve even named a girl...
