Houses

Cottage Status Report 20241020

It’s almost time to say goodbye to the drowned annuals that desperately tried to recover from the early summer monsoons and failed miserably (it had nothing to do with the fact the pots had no holes in the bottom and their pretend custodian had better things to do, like hold down a lounge chair), and time to say goodbye to …

Houses

Cottage Status Report 20240929

I know you’ve been anxiously awaiting an update on the health of my cottage appliances (probably as anxiously as you’ve been anticipating a sequel to Beetlejuice, which may be arriving ...
Middle Age

My Friend Michelle

  My friend Michelle “threw off her mortal coil” in her 61st year last week. And I use that expression as the most apt I could think of in this ...
Middle Age

Techno-jail

At the cottage, we use our iPhone hotspots to access the internet. This works pretty well, except on summer long weekends or when it’s raining, when everybody and their progeny ...
Marilyn Carr meets the Beatles

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Writer. Editor. Ghostwriter.

Books Books

The next instalment of my memoir, If It’s Shreveport, It Must Be Tuesday, will be published later in 2024.

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