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Happy new year to all of you!

Orval is still in the hospital, so I'll probably spend New year's at home.
That's okay. New Year's Eve is really the worst time to go out. Restaurants are crowded, service is lousy because the poor waiters and waitresses are stressed and unhappy to have to be working when everyone else is partying. Who can blame them?
So, I'll ring in the new year at home.

Hope all is well for all of you. May 2013 be better for all of us than 2012 was.

Blog 12/29/2012

I really don’t know how I got started writing. I guess I’ve always written in one way or another. Diaries, school assignments, letters. They sort of morphed into longer fiction.
I wrote short stories to read to my kids and then longer pieces to please myself. Eventually I tried romance novels because I read so many.
Most of my stories seemed to have a murder in them in one way or another, so I moved into romantic suspense and then cozy mysteries. I jump back and forth, depending on what idea pops up next.
Currently, I’ve been doing a Lacey Summers Private Eye series. The latest is just out, Eccentric Lady. Lacey is a small town PI who seems to get in all kinds of danger because someone doesn’t like what she does. In this novel, she tries to help a woman find out why her aunt is missing. But her aunt is eccentric and often goes off on trips alone, so no one believes she’s really missing.
My writing day varies depending on what else is going on in my life. At the moment, my husband is in the hospital and just had surgery, so I’m not getting much done besides running back and forth to the hospital. Everything else gets put on hold.
Sometimes I write for 3-4 hours straight, sometimes only a half hour here and there. I try to roll with the punches that life hands me. I really hate Christmas because it seems to bring sickness and death to someone in my family every year. Bah, humbug.
But that’s just what happens in my family. Maybe yours is the opposite and only happy things happen at that time of the year. I hope so.
May 2013 bring only good things to you and yours. Edna Curry

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Halloween is coming

When I was a kid (back in the dark ages) I lived on a farm, and we weren't allowed to go trick or treating like the town kids did. We thought that was a horrible restriction. My parents wouldn't have dreamed of driving us from farm to farm or to town so we could walk the streets and go from house to house.

Then I married and had kids and lived in a small town (about 1800 people.)   Our house was on the main residential street and thus got lots of trick or treaters. I let my kids go out, too and they loved it.
We got at least a hundred kids coming to our door and I enjoyed seeing all the costumes and trying to identify the neighbor kids.

But I soon learned that my parents had been the exception - many of the trick or treaters were farm kids and a parent was driving that slow moving car following them from house to house.
That did sort of irritate me, since I was quite sure they weren't getting any kids at their farmhouse in turn.
Then I was part of the Chamber of Commerce's annual party at the town's community center. We donated food, cooked and served hundreds of hot dogs and cans of pop, played lots of games and gave out prizes for costumes. Lots of fun, but a lot of work, too.

Now I live on a dead end and don't get many kids at all. Or maybe, with all the weirdos out there sabotaging the little ones' fun with dangerous tricks, maybe not as many kids are out doing that anymore. Which seems a shame. Little ones grow up too fast as it is.

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The Alpha Male – Wonderful as a romance hero but hell to live with in real life.

 

As a romance hero, the alpha male is the star of Harlequin Presents novels, cowboy romances, police and detective novels and Nascar stories.

We’ve all read about him, dreamed of a man like him, pictured ourselves making love with him. Policemen, Navy Seals, Billionaires who jet around the world and buy and sell companies and can make or break careers with a snap of their fingers. What’s not to like? He’s bigger than life and a man that women admire and lust after.

But what would he really be like as your husband?

You only have to go back to the 1950s to see what life was really like for women married to alpha males. Most men were that type back then, whether they were farmers or CEOS.

Women stayed home and took care of the house and children. They washed clothes, raised vegetables, canned or froze food for future use. They baked pies and cookies. They worked hard at church and charity functions and did all kinds of unpaid volunteer jobs for their families and communities.
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Even if they had servants, they worked hard at volunteer functions or being the unpaid hostess at their husbands society affairs.

They had no control over their own bodies. Rape was common and if a woman dared report it, she was treated by police and many other people as though it was her own fault. She’d asked for it by her dress or her demeanor, was the usual comment, often even by other women.

Men were the breadwinners, women were supposed to stay home and have dinner on the table at the proper time for their hero. A favorite male joke was “keep them barefoot and pregnant.” If they got a job, it was a woman’s job, for far less pay than men got, even for the same work. That is still true to a large extent today.

How do I know, you ask? I lived through those times and have no desire to return. I sure hope the Tea Party doesn’t succeed in taking us back there. Sigh. Been there, done that. Shudder.

 

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No matter which side you're supporting in this presidential election, one thing is clear to me: we need to get rid of the antiquated electoral college. This system of voting for electors instead of directly voting for the candidate may have made sense in colonial times, but it certainly doesn't make sense now and hasn't for a long time.
In this day of computers, ever person's vote should count.
I hate that many people will feel betrayed when they vote for one candidate and then hear that their state's xx number of electoral votes were all cast for the other candidate. It's happened to me many times and I for one, am sick of this xxxx.
When will we modernize our presidential elections?

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Widowed Lisa Bickford is overwhelmed by the demands of her deteriorating mansion and spoiled adult children who returned to the nest. A recurring nightmare and a quarrel with her children push her over the edge. She seeks refuge in her hometown where she meets high school sweetheart, Tracer Marsley, and they quickly renew their former romance.

But divorced Trace has problems too. He’s dealing with his spoiled daughter in college, his demanding ex-wife, and her doting but controlling parents. Their outrageous emphasis on opulence fuels Trace’s disdain for luxury and he goes to extremes of recycling and unnecessary economy

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After her husband dies, Lisa no longer has the energy, or desire, to continue caring for her adult kids. She sells the family house and heads for home to discover that her divorced childhood sweetheart Trace has also returned.

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Seven Short Stories by Edna Curry

This is a collection of my own short stories. It contains a variety of stories from sweet romantic women's fiction, Candlelight and Silverware, 2 murder mysteries, Circletop Capers and Love, Fish and Fangs, a teen story, Moonlight Madness and 3 literary horror stories, Inseperable Twins, A Pink Lady and Dallesview Hotel

Banning abortions

The republican/tea party proposal and vow to ban abortions sends chills down my spine.
I lived through the 50s when abortions were banned. I know many of you didn't, you're much too young. So you have rose colored glasses on about how life would be in that situation.

Let me tell you how it really was, down in the trenches of young women who had little say about their own bodies. Rape was common and mostly unreported. If a woman reported it, she was treated by police and many others as being at fault. She'd asked for it, was the common comment.

If a girl got pregnant, many times she was forced into marriage, whether she or the man involved wanted that.

Or she could try for an illegal black market abortion. These were done by fly-by-night and often untrained people, willing to break the law for fast big bucks. The woman was led to a back room, aborted often with unsterized equipment and then immediately sent away, bleeding and in great pain. If she developed an infection, as many did, she was often afraid to seek medical help until it was too late. Many died. Others became sterile from the scars.

Or a 'friend' might claim she knew how to cause a spontaneous abortion. A friend of mine died after being poked with a coat hanger until her uterus was perforated and she bled to death.

Is that the kind of scenario you want our country to return to?

If you don't learn from history, you repeat it.
Remember prohibition? Did that work? LOL.
Think about it. Take off your rose colored glasses and face reality of what would really happen.

Childhood ditty

Did any of you learn your months as a child by memorizing this ditty?
Thirty days hath September, April, June and November.
All the rest have thirtyone, but February has twentyeight
except for leapyear, then twenty nine.

Or how about the alphabet song? Did you learn it by singing the letters?
Or how?

What I think we really need are some laws that allow/require 3rd party vendors to give authors sales numbers.

That would eliminate all the epubs/publishers, NYC included, from lying/ fudging sales figures to authors.

I think it's time for all of us to sign a petition to our legislators to update the e-trade laws.

Pass it on.

Gorgeous spring day

It's another gorgeous spring day in Minnesota. 50 degrees and sunny, crocus and tulips are blooming, grass is green and leaves are that half-formed, cool yellow-green that begs for warmth and sunlight for maturity.

We didn't get the predicted frost last night, but more is forecast for next week. We're still in the danger of frost time line, so I haven't put out any flowers in pots yet. I could, of course, if I wanted to bring them in every time the temp is supposed to drop. I did that last year, but ran into a problem. Some birds built a tiny nest  (wrens? goldfinches?) in one of the hanging baskets. I brought it into the garage one night and didn't notice the nest until the next morning. Big mistake.
The birds never returned to that nest. Sigh.
But some other birds did claim it later, (sparrows, I think) so a batch of babies lived there after all.
Next time, I'll check the basket for inhabitants and if it's occupied, I'll take a chance on the frost rather than scaring them away by moving their home.

Back to work.
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Yay, the snow stopped and the wind has dropped. Only 13 degrees, but feels better without the wind blowing and the roads are clearing. Salt and traffic.
And my faithful Sue came with her plow on a pickup truck and plowed my driveway and yard, so life is good!
Best Friends went off being free today. Sorry if you missed getting your copy, but I did post it all over the place.
Edna

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Yay, the temp in MN came back above zero! 4 right now. And pretty snowflakes are falling. Haven't had much of those this year. I don't especially like snow, especially don't like driving on it or on ice, but we do need some snow for the protection of little animals. They need it to burrow into and use it for insulation against the cold.
Edna