The End

I recently published my first edited book,  Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Staff Anthology ,  with  Small Harbor Publishing . It's an anthology of writing from  Literary Mama  staff over the past 20 years. It's a beautiful collection and I am proud of the writers and proud to share the book.  It seems a fitting moment, as I pondered sharing about the book here on the blog, to reflect on my life as a blogger, and acknowledge that it is time to officially end this blog.   I started blogging in about 2007, when my baby was learning to toddle, when I was learning how to be a mother and stepmother, when I was just starting to see my way as a writer. I needed it back then. I craved it. I had a variety of blog iterations--family, art, creativity, writing things I delved into. There's a freedom in blogging, a casualness, an easy familiarity that's lacking (for me anyway) in other kinds of writing. I loved blogging and the words came pouring out.  Ove...
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Austrian Chalet Dollhouse

I've fallen behind on posting pictures of my dollhouses. Here is the Austrian Chalet I completed at the end of the winter. It's fictionally located in the town of Obertauern, Austria, where the Beatles filmed part of their movie Help! It's a ski shop and bar, called the Amsel Berg Ski Haus. And it's owned by a gay couple; one runs the bar, the other the shop. I'm slightly late for Pride Month, but I hope everyone had a good one!

    At the bottom of the post you can see what the house looked like when I originally got it. 









Stay tuned for pictures of the inside!

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The original house




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