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.

 

Please comment with your email address to be entered in our Alpha Male drawings. Two people who leave their email on my site will have their choice of one of my e-novels. I’ll email you to ask which novel you’d like and what format in which you would like it sent to you. Also you’ll be entered in the whole bloghop drawing for one of the larger prizes!

So leave a comment and then hop on to the next site. You can enter at each site to have many chances to win!
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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

Then Lisa succeeds in selling the mansion and forcing her kids to stand on their own two feet. He can’t understand her pushing her kids away when he’s trying so hard to build a relationship with his daughter.

Can their fragile new love survive these stresses and flourish?

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 Romantic Times Book Club Rating: 4 stars

A wonderful story of love the second time around.

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.

The pair rediscover the passions of their youth and find they are falling in love all over again. Despite the rightness of their relationship, Lisa finds herself feeling guilty for running away from her kids and knows Trace is curious about her new past.

As Lisa spends money with a wild abandoned, Chase begins to wonder if

Lisa is more like his ex-wife that he wants to believe.

Although as time passes, only love can conquer all.

Reviewed By: Chandra Sparks

 

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