Tag: oklahoma
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El Reno, Oklahoma Welcomes President Obama!
Though the names have changed and the times are better, they’re still the same people depicted in my novel, The Edge of Nowhere, and the way the residents represented our town yesterday makes me doubly proud to have set my novel in this wonderful town.
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THE EDGE OF NOWHERE
The story of a young woman’s courage in the face of unrelenting adversity. Inspired by actual events. Coming this January by Penner Publishing.
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2015 Lawton Chautauqua (June 16-20)
If you’ve followed my website at all recently, then you know that my upcoming novel, The Edge of Nowhere, follows the story of a widowed mother of ten children struggling to survive through the 1930s Oklahoma Dust Bowl. But what was the Dust Bowl, really? The Lawton Public Library in Lawton, Oklahoma is hosting a […]
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Red Oklahoma Earth
My novel, The Edge of Nowhere, is expected to be released this Fall by Penner Publishing. In it, I talk extensively of my love for the red Oklahoma dirt. It’s hard to imagine unless you’ve seen it firsthand, so I’ve stolen this photo from my cousin. Ignore the mud – Oklahoma is under siege at present […]
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Welcome to Minnesoohta!
Ole answered the phone one day and came back to the living room crying. “Vell, Ole! Vat in da vorld is da matter?” asked the sympathetic Lena. “I yust had bad news, Lena,” Ole replied, “My fadder yust died!!” Just then the phone rang again, Ole went to answer it and came back crying again. […]