Giveaway time!!!


  It’s time for a giveaway!!!  Thank to all of my wonderful readers, I couldn’t create the stories I do without you, I love you all.  (Back BI, Before Internet, I had no idea how bug a tribe I actually have, it’s made my life so much sweeter) And since it’s almost August, hot as […]

Fun Weekend Links


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Fun Friday Links


 Because we can all use a bit of distraction right now…. Dance for Ukraine Fundraiser, London Colisieum 10 Best French Feminist Books To Inspire  Women Film Editors: Shedding the Cloak of Invisibility  Shackelton’s “Endurance” Discovered  How Ukrainian Writers Are Contributing to the War Effort Female Trailblazers Throughout History  Concert for Ukraine at The Metropolitan Opera  […]

Fun Friday Links


 13 Items That Defined Audrey Hepburn’s Wardrobe 13 Ways To Start A Cocktail Party Conversation The Best Agatha Christie Books, According To Agatha Christie The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist That Had All The 18th Century Talking The Real Life Mansions Of The Gilded Age In Defense Of Romance Valentine’s Gifts From Famous Fictional Men […]

Fun Friday Links


 13 Items That Defined Audrey Hepburn’s Wardrobe 13 Ways To Start A Cocktail Party Conversation The Best Agatha Christie Books, According To Agatha Christie The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist That Had All The 18th Century Talking The Real Life Mansions Of The Gilded Age In Defense Of Romance Valentine’s Gifts From Famous Fictional Men […]

Heroine of the Weekend: Colette


   This weekend’s heroine is the writer Colette, born on January 28, 1873!   Born in the Burgundy village of Saint-Saveur-en-Puisaye to a war hero father and his wife, the family was orginally prosperous but suffered finanical reversals.  She married in 1893 to Henri Gauthier-Villars (“Willy”), a writer and publisher 14 years her senior.  Her first […]