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Right now, everything on TV is either reruns or ‘reality’, which I don’t like at all. So I decided to find something else to watch. That should be easy, since I have a huge library of tv shows and movies on DVD. I started out using VHS, then I copied my favorites onto DVDs.

I recently came across a music…

I love the movie Forbidden Planet! It's my all-time favorite SF movie. In the film, one of the main characters was named Altaira--after the planet, Altair 4. I couldn't get that name out of my head! So when I started writing, I decided to make that the name of the planet in my futuristic romance--but with my spelling: Altara.  That was around 1970.  Much later, when I discovered the internet, I decided that would be a good Username.  I used that before I was confident enough to use my actual…

I've been writing since I was a teenager in high school. It's just "me", who I am. After high school, I started at the local junior college, and if I hadn't dropped out after getting married, I would have been an English Major.  By then, I knew what I wanted to do with my life: have a family and keep writing.   I would normally write 20 pages per day after I was married--being a stay-at-home mom. I had put it aside when I had my first baby. Then I realized he slept a…

I've always loved chocolate. My favorite candy bars are: Milky Way, Hershey's plain or almond, and Nestle's Crunch. I guess it was maybe a year or two ago that I discovered Nutella. Basically, it's a Hazelnut & cocoa spread. 

  I recently stocked up on Nutella  (2 large jars) and a couple of boxes of graham crackers. I limit myself to either half a graham cracker or another 'extra' 1/4--3 pieces, in other…

   I love taking pictures. I guess it started when I was a child, even though I didn’t actually do it until much later.

    My first camera was a Brownie box. My grandma gave it to me. I was very young & don’t remember if I ever actually took any picures with it. I probably just ‘pretended’ to take…

I'm not one of those people who go 'hog wild' about finding my ancestors. I can't/won't pay for that. However, some years ago, I found a 'free' site where I could look for ancestors. I can't remember where or how I actually did it. But I do remember: I put in the name of a person (grandfather maybe) and then looked for 'his grandfather'--and so on. I found relatives back to the 1200's!  It turns out my ancestors came from England, Ireland, Scotland, the…