Here's a photo from the AAUW Brunch yesterday.

My appearance on The Travel Addict podcast has just dropped. You can find it in the usual podcast places but here are a few:


https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-travel-addict/id1529802944

https://open.spotify.com/show/31sDaMn2zvtPOekza0y9OB

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xMjg4ODA4LnJzcw

https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3091275

https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-travel-addict

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-travel-addict-1415058

I enjoyed speaking at the Fremont chapter of America Association of University Women at their installation luncheon. Thanks to all who purchased my memoirs.  I sold out of both!

My story, "Parted, not Separated," a 3,000-word short story summarizing much of my first book, Between Inca Walls, has been selected for publication in the SF-Peninsula chapter's 2023 Fault Zone anthology. This year's anthology titled, "Detachment," will be published in late fall or early winter, 2023.

From AAUW:

I've been getting some positive feedback from the excerpt I read at the Feb 18 CWC Peninsula meeting from Love in Any Language called "And Baby Makes Four", so I wanted to post it here:

I unwrapped pink diaper bags, pink onesies, and frilly pink dresses at the April 1971 baby showers thrown by the Hawthorne school faculty and the women in our UC student-housing unit. Those who doubted that I could choose the sex of my baby, thought impossible in 1970, gave me yellow blankets, sweaters, and booties. (I’d read a Life magazine article about how to conceive a girl. My husband loved the method.)

When birthing Tony, our first child, four years before, I’d been caught off guard by the pain. Then, my obstetrician had quickly administered a saddle block anesthetic. The painkiller deadened me to all feeling in my lower extremities. For days afterward, I had excruciating headaches every time I lifted my head. I didn’t want a pain-deadener with this second birth. I wanted to experience the pleasure of a natural birth, like so many women said they did in the ’70s. I enrolled in weekly evening Lamaze classes the month before my due date, and hoped for a painless, enjoyable childbirth.

Here's me speaking at the February monthly meeting of the California Writer's Club (San Francisco Peninsula chapter). Check out the latest CWC-SF Peninsula going's on in our Newsstand section, here.

The fast-spreading Omicron variant cancelled my trip to Morocco in December 2021, when the borders to that country were closed. So, my husband and I postponed our trip to the North African country until December 2022. Three months before we were due to fly from SFO to Casablanca via Paris, I fractured my right ankle on an easy walk around our Lake Elizabeth. I thought I might be destined to never see that country’s mosaics, taste their tajine meals, or ride their camels in the Sahara Desert.