05.22.2018

Oh now, where would YOU go?

I asked people on my facebook pages this question…

CHOOSE ONE. I’m really trying hard to procrastinate so I don’t have to edit my book, so I’m thinking about vacations. Where would you go for one month if the whole darn, beautiful, fun thing was free?

1) Scotland. Men in kilts. Bagpipes. Rolling hills and mystery.
2) Thailand. Lagoons and an ocean. Lush jungles. History.
3) Alaska. Cruise. Sea life. Animal life. Sunsets. No driving.

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Beth Haubach Scotland Because of how beautiful I have heard it is. I would love to see the heather in bloom. Or Alaska which is another dream vacation of mine. I want to do Land, sea and rails trip there.

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Amy Rogers Alaska- the home of my heart. But I’m not sure I’d want to spend a month on a cruise ship. There’s so much more to see inland as well. Take the train to Fairbanks, see Denali, visit North Pole, fish the Copper and Russian Rivers, drive to Ninilchik- the most western spot you can continuously drive on roads to in North America, see the Homer Spit and leave a dollar on the wall at the Salty Dog, visit Exit Glacier in Seward, and so very much more! And now, I’m homesick. Let’s go, Cathy! I’ll play tour guide!

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Cathy Lamb Amy Rogers Definitely calling you if I go to Alaska

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Janet Bailey I’d go back to Alaska with a long stop on Fox Island. I will never forget eating breakfast and watching the eagles swooping near the mountains and a whale spouting not too far off shore in the inlet.

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Colleen Bogner Scotland but Thailand is definitely a close second… Though it is on my bucket list to spend time in Denali in Alaska. Don’t have much of an interest in doing a cruise there

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Mona McManus Scotland!! I left a piece of my heart there five years ago. Everywhere was postcard perfect, but I especially loved Glencoe and the Isle of Skye. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Cynthia Adams Scotland…..It and Ireland are on my bucket list. We cruise to Caribbean locations every year, so it would be nice for a change in scenery.

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Anh Luu Eckrosh Easy…#2 Thailand! Been wanting to go back for a long time. Plus, I’m all about lagoons and ocean! 🏝☀️

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Carla Suto Scotland. I’ve been before but it was for work so I didn’t have as much time I would have liked to explore.

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Carol Ray Thailand because it is beautiful. I would say Scotland but I could go there on my own. Thailand is more of a luxury.

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Sheryl Jablonski Hoopes Scotland. There is no doubt. Now, who do I see about this??!

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Frances Jurvakainen Williams Scotland. It’s in my gene pool..and how can you resist a man in kilts who speaks with a Scottish brogue🤪😍

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Kandjoe Miller Scotland. Luncarty is where my family is from

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Tracia Craig I live in Alaska so my choice would be Scotland.

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Mary Ruckman Branham Alaska.spent 17 days there and loved it.so gorgeous

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Tina Treece-Argo Alaska for sure got family there

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Anne Hovey Brandolini A tropical place somewhere, followed by Alaska then ten days in Paris. Ahhhh

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Birgitta Handford Thailand; I will always pick a tropical beach!

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Tammy Rose Dodson Scotland! I loved visiting that country years ago and would return in a heartbeat! 💕

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Pattie Y Gutierrez Scotland… love the kilts… rolling hills… sounds of bagpipes… and those accents!!

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Patty W Warren Scotland is the only choice! That country is on my Hubbie and mine bucket list at the top!!

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Angela Barlow They all look awesome in pictures. Probably Scotland though. 😃

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JoAnn Allen Scully Alaska, but I have to wait 3 years. That is hubby’s retirement trip.

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Michelle Traver None of the above. Ireland, the Cliffs of Moher. Only I’d want all the people to be gone.

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Charlotte Bono Grisafi Petersburg, AK! My son is living there!

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Linda Phillips Pillans This is a difficult choice. But I’m going with #1.

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Katy Shandil Costa Rica, swimming with the Dolphins

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Sandra Jean Lawrence Did an Alaskan cruise 2 yrs ago. Was wonderful!

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Rhonda Johnson #2 for something way different than my normal

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Corina Coggon Krautscheid Warm and sunny is always my first choice.

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Karen Crouch Alaska… Always been a dream of mine!

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Patty Assero Targonski Thailand. Ocean. Lagoons. Wonderful.

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Lyn Molyneux Ford Alaska for sure

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Deb Small Alaska! 🐻🐋💫

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Mandy Boelter Lange Number 1, oh yeah! Bring on the men in the kilts! 😁

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Penny McBride #1 for me

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Maureen Schreiber Sharp #1 men in kilts! 😉

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Denise Bokman #3…although the kilts were a really close second…

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Leslie Stacye Lindsay Thailand and Scotland are both on my list. Yes, one of those.

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Katie Linder Scotland!

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Piepie Baltz Scotland!

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Sherie Nash Lived in the north already, Scotland yep…not keen on too much heat either.

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BarLee Wood Scotland for sure. So much amazing scenery and the hospitality is reportedly fantastic.

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James Travers Any would be awesome. I’m gonna call an audible though. How about Cuba or Brasil?

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Cathy Doces Scotland!

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Vicki Spillman I like bagpipes. I would say Scotland. But I also love the ocean.

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Becky Brock Ridenour Alaska!!! That way my husband would agree to go with me! And we both would love to go there!

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Jaymi Couch Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Aimie Trumbly Runyan I haven’t been to Thailand, but have been to the other two… so yeah, I vote Thailand!

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Cathie Armstrong Scotland, hands down!! Those KNEES!!!!!!😂😂😂

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Belinda Michael Scotland…I’ve always wanted to go and have never been. My ancestors on my mother’s side are from Scotland. It’s on my bucket list.

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Michelle Murphy Scotland! I would love to sit there and just listen to people talk:)

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Angelique L’Amour All three are on my list plus Africa and Greece and egypt

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Mich Lueken Scotland – without a doubt !

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Sarah Patt Thailand. I wanna swim and hold a monkey!Manage

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Tammy Aday Scotland!

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Kay Bratt Thailand. I’ve been there 3 times so I know how amazing it is and am always ready to go back. 

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Cindy Deatherage I am going to Alaska in the middle of June, land/cruise tour!! Come along !!!

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Honey Perkel Scotland, for sure. I love that country!!!

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Joan Scroggins SCOTLAND!!!!!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Lori Taylor Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Patricia Howell White I’ve been on a long Alaskan cruise and I would go again in a heartbeat! I highly recommend it. Never been to Scotland but I’d sure like to go. Ireland too!

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Barbara Samuel For my passions: India. For relaxing, New Zealand or England.

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Cynthia Dix Scotland.

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JT Ellison Scotland. 100 percent.

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Terri Johnsen Thailand!

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Joyce Ferrell Ocracoke island north carolina u.s. or Scotland, or the Costa del sol ,Spain.

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Joyce Ferrell I have been saying for years I was going to go to ocracoke and stay all winter and write my book. Lol. We can come here anytime as my daughter has a small house here. We are on the island this week!

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Charolette Romero I think I would choose Scotland because I would get to see a different culture

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Nancy Glasgow-Narma Scotland..See where my Grandma and Grandpa Glasgow came from..

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Susan Gromis I am of Scottish descent and have never been there, but love the culture!

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Leslie Lehr Greece. Instead, this year we’re headed to Wisconsin! (to see Marlys Closser Greenhalgh, though, so that makes up for it.)

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Karen Calcagno Thailand!!

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Mary McDonough If this doesn’t;t make you want to go…then…??? There is also a part II of the blog!https://www.davidlebovitz.com/eating-dining-and-drinking…/Manage

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05.22.2018

You Must Read Them While Eating Cake

The books below that I sweated and cried and laughed hysterically over as I semi-lost my mind, are between three bucks and four bucks at the moment on kindle, at Amazon.

You MUST read them while eating cake, that’s the rule that CANNOT be broken, but other than that, everything else is normal. Happy day to all.

 

 

 

 

 

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05.14.2018

Cheaper Than A Mocha

The Language of Sisters and my latest, No Place I’d Rather Be, are on sale for $2.99….

Cheaper than a gallon of ice cream. About the same price as making chocolate chip cookies. Less than my favorite mocha.

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05.13.2018

Happy Mother’s Day!

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05.01.2018

Two Books On Sale For You

THEY ARE ON SALE!!

$2.99 each for No Place I’d Rather Be and The Language of Sisters.

If you would like to read about fluffy cakes and charming houseboats, history and mystery, sisters and secrets, you might like these books.

This sale will be short and sweet.

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04.30.2018

Flowers and Peace

I am continuing my daily quest to find beauty in nature and in my garden.

Wishing you a peaceful week.

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04.30.2018

Cookbooks And Story Ideas

It was the cookbooks.

My late mother’s cookbooks, to be precise. They launched my latest novel, No Place I’d Rather Be.

There they were, as always, stacked on my kitchen counter beneath her flowered ceramic teapot. Cookbooks with titles like Savor The Flavor of Oregon. The Book of Salads. Better Homes And Gardens New Cook Book.

They had recipes for strawberry jam, avocado and tomato salad, meringue cake, and lemon souffle.

Her personal recipes, handwritten, were in a wooden green box with apples next to the cookbooks. Irish Soda Bread. French Chicken Fettucine. Enchilada Pie. Joyce’s Chicken.

I sat and I stared and I sat and I stared and there it was: An idea for a story that eventually became part of No Place I’d Rather Be.

I would write about a cookbook that was handed down through the generations, from mother to daughter to granddaughter to great-granddaughter and on and on.

I would start this family out in Odessa, in 1904, in the Russian Empire. The cookbook would be carried out as they escaped the flames of the pogroms and fled to Germany. The next generation would take it with them as they ran from the Nazis and onto the Kindertransport. It would survive the near-annihilation of London during the Blitz, and it would end up hidden in a box, in an attic, in Montana.

The cookbook would show each woman’s life, her history. There would be recipes and drawings of families and farms, gardens and red geraniums. Blood and tea stains would spill across the ingredients. Gold lockets, red ribbons, and old photographs would be tucked between the pages.

I had a vision of a family in my head and wrote the vision, my mother’s cookbooks in my kitchen keeping me centered on the plot.

I will give my mother’s cookbooks to my kids. I will write on the inside cover that they belonged to Bette Jean, and I will write her birthdate and death date. I’ll write my name and birthdate. I hope my kids will give them to my grandkids and that they will give them to their children.

As we all know, cookbooks and recipes, from our mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers, aren’t all about the ingredients.

It’s about the love. All that love, handed down with hugs from one generation to the next, right beside the recipe for Irish Soda Bread.

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04.24.2018

Come And Join Readers Coffeehouse!

We’re hosting New York Times best selling author Eloisa James on Readers Coffeehouse today.

She was our author of the month and she’s giving away eight books! Yes, eight!

Readers Coffeehouse is a place for readers to talk about books (positive talk only, we don’t allow negative comments about books or authors, there is too much stress in the world already) meet authors, recommend books, find recommendations, etc.

My fellow Readers Coffeehouse founding members? Authors Catherine Ryan Hyde, Kimberly Belle, Steena Holmes, Laura Drake, Jo-Ann Mapson, and Barbara Claypole White.

Come and join us!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ReadersCoffeehouse/

 

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04.24.2018

A Coma. A Secret. A Husband

My new book. Out October 29th.

Natalie Shelton’s husband has out run his past for a long time.

It’s finally caught up with him.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Man-She-Married-Cathy-Lamb-ebook/dp/B079KTVHGD/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524552497&sr=1-1&keywords=the+man+she+married+cathy+lamb

 

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04.23.2018

What A Writer Does With Dirt

…this is what a writer does when she cannot think of a single, blasted idea to write about for her next book to save her own silly life and she orders eight cubic yards of dirt and stone to stack in her garden and as she hauls and lifts she mutters to herself that she should have grown up to be a witch or a UFO chaser or perhaps a cat walker or a circus clown because she is clearly more fit for those jobs than she is for writing and then she sits down after hauling all that garden dirt and writes a post with no grammar and this just proves what a nut-case odd duck she is and perhaps it is time to move to that remote cabin in the woods and talk and sing only to deer or friendly raccoon because an idea for her next story just won’t come…

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