Today I got an email from an unhappy reader because the copy of Sunset Bridge she bought was missing significant pages.  Unfortunately this was the fourth or fifth email of its kind in the past few weeks.  Clearly somewhere along the way a small batch of that title, the final of three in my Happiness Key series, went awry.  The printing press got the hiccups, or the persons operating it did. Most likely there are a few more copies floating around still to be discovered. 

Most of the readers who’ve emailed me have suggested I might be able to fix this for them.  Short of flying to a reader’s house and inserting typed pages where the missing pages should be, of course I can’t really  ’”fix it”.  Nor can I afford to buy another book and mail it, or use one of my limited author copies and pay the postage (although I certainly have).   The good news?  There was something I could do. (more…)

Congratulations to Nancy Badertscher, who won last month’s CHU giveaway by trying a vegetarian broccoli quiche to feed her visiting vegetarian children. Nancy used a recipe from Pillsbury’s Easy Vegetarian Meals, and I’m providing the link to the same quiche, as well as the cookbook.  (more…)

Welcome to Sunday Poetry.  If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday blogs here.

I loved today’s poem the moment it found me.  Maybe I love it most because we rejoined Netflix this month after a summer away, and in the past two weeks I’ve seen more movies than I’d seen the entire spring and summer.  Movies, by Billy Collins, is a tongue-in-cheek look at the joys of the cinema, and our yearnings to experience life on the safety of the big screen.  I love the imagery here.  Can you imagine Collins “with the bed hitched up to the television, they way they’d hitch up a stagecoach?”   Every time I read that, I smile. (more…)