My sister gave me Mary Bauer’s book, Minnesota Day Trips by Theme for my birthday this year. Day trips are a fun idea made smarter by the Covid-19 pandemic that has most of us working on staycations for now. The state I live in is blessed with a solid four seasons that bring change and…
Book Club News – March 2020
I picked up an interesting read at Macawber’s book store before he closed for business, THE KITCHEN BOY, by Robert Alexander, is spell binding from many directions. While it is fiction, there is a lot of historical fact embedded throughout. It continues my focus on International reading, as it is set in Russia during the…
Book Club News – August 2019
This month Griffonneur Press bookclub is reading more from The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – THE HOUSE OF UNEXPECTED SISTERS, by Alexander McCall Smith. I picked it up from Valley Bookseller in Stillwater on a book run there in June 2018. It’s been in my “To Read” book pile since then, so I’m happy…
8th Annual Siblings Weekend
This July my sisters and I held our 8th annual sibling’s weekend. The weekend has evolved a bit over the years, but the essence has stayed the same. The weekend (either 2 or 3 days) is about the three of us. With rare exceptions it only involves us (no significant others, no kids, no pets,…
Research Tricks
A trick I often use to keep my research organized and tight when I’m beginning a story is so very simple, but I’m not sure many people think about it so I’m going to share it here. I do a lot of web based research when I’m writing stories. Of course like most writers I…
Book Club News – July 2019
The official GriffonneurPress book club has been stuck on anime the last few books, but today we’ve moved on. We’re reading THE TENOR WORE TAPSHOES by Mark Schweizer. It’s the third Hayden Konig mystery, punished by St. James Music Press. It was a random pick from Once Upon A Crime bookstore and a bit off…
Travel blog
Traveling the world. Two hundred years ago this was an option only for the very wealthy. Besides this tiny percent of the population, there were also groups of people willing to give up everything to take a chance at a better life in a different country. If one knew how to read, there were books,…
Take Pride in Everything
June is commonly known as Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans, Queer Pride month around the world. It was chosen based on the timing of the Stonewall Riots, which are thought of as the birth of the gay rights movement in the US and subsequently the world.
Merging, Blending, Fusing
So I’m going to merge my book website and my life website into one and call it Griffonneur Press dot com. Griffonneur is French for scribbler. As such, it’s been my term for the last few years for what I’m doing in my off time. A note here, a picture there, a story someplace else….