If you enjoy this blog, you’ll love my still-unreleased novels. “Flamenco and the Sitting Cat” and “Tango and the Sitting Cat” are my love letters to you and to all who worry they’re too odd or old, overly damaged or young, or under deserving of happiness alone or with someone.
About Me
Reading, writing, and travel hooked me early. It was inevitable, given my multi-cultural family’s love of books and our frequent relocations to cities across the U.S. and Spain. Through it all, writing to friends and my dear grandmothers in Buenos Aires and Barcelona was a constant. Today I’m settled in Los Angeles with my Iranian-American husband who loves world dance, cooking, healthy living, music, and animals as much as I do. K-D, our one-of-a-kind-mix dog, rescues me from brooding over commas for too long.
As a journalist, I won an Emmy (click here for the documentary), was nominated for one the year before, and earned assorted cable TV awards. One of my short stories is in Verdad Magazine. Twice, I was honored as an “Emerging Author” at the Literary Women Festival of Authors, and my visual art features in “New Directions in Altered Books,” by Gabe Cyr and California State Long Beach’s literary journal, Rip Rap.
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nice puppy
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thank you 🙂
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BONJOUR
Que l’année nouvelle soit comme une caresse
Illuminée par les sourires de ceux que vous aimez
Que leur gentillesse vous couvre de tendresse
Année de joie et de plaisirs chaque jour partagés
Bisous Bernard
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thank you for the kind, poetic wishes, Bernard. wishing same for you & yours 🙂
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You’ve certainly led an interesting life. You have my best wishes in all your writing endeavors. If you ever write a memoir, I would be interested in reading it.
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you are so kind, Jorge — much appreciate the encouragement 🙂
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You and your blog are such truly nice ‘happenings’.And your blog makes me feel better after I had read it.
Thank you.
Joanna
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so glad, Gaby 🙂
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Amazing post.
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thank you, Simran 🙂
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How have you been? Long time.
Missed reading your blogs.
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I am great, thank you. how are you?
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