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A Chihuahua’s point of view, a guest blog by writer Marianne Banks

March 27, 2011
Click on Marianne's photo to go to her publisher's website and look at her new book, Growing Up Delicious.

A river of humanity flows by my backyard. Walkers, roller-bladers, runners and cyclists use the bike path from first light to dusk. From my spot weeding a flowerbed I heard a woman say to her companion, ‘I just don’t know what it all means’, as they strode past.
“Did you hear that, Nuala?”  Read More 
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Dear Winter,

March 3, 2011
Tags: Winter, snow
You and I started out with such passion, such hope. Your first flakes thrilled me with their romance. You seduced me with visions of evenings by the fireplace. I said good bye to autumn, let it go without a backward glance. But now it seems that our relationship has run its course. You were  Read More 
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Nelson and Snow

February 28, 2011
Me and Nelson in Jamaica
Here is my good dog buddy, Nelson, at the Bromley Estate in Jamaica . I was there in 2009 and 2010, but this winter, I am betrothed to my snow shovel in Western Massachusetts , where we are scheduled for more snow tonight. Nelson has never seen snow, although his breed is extremely fond of rolling in the  Read More 
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Working on the Sequel

February 16, 2011
Here is where I will not be this year, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala .
I am taking a sabbatical from teaching at the international retreats for the next 12 months while I finish my next novel. While I have loved traveling to Guatemala , Jamaica , the UK , and Ireland , I need to stay in one place while I write. I’m working on a sequel to Lost & Found, which one  Read More 
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Who said research was dull?

November 24, 2010
There is always an element of research for each novel; sometimes the research is vast (historical fiction) and sometimes it's more like fact checking. I recently had a chance to do a police ride-along with a terrific police officer in Portland, Maine. I'm working on a sequel to Lost & Found and for reasons that  Read More 
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Writing in a Heat Wave without Air Conditioning

July 7, 2010
Since I've last posted in the fall, I've traveled to Italy, Guatemala, Jamaica, Italy, Ireland, and a lovely two-week writing retreat in Maine. But all of this means that I neglected my blog. And I've picked the hottest day of the year on the East Coast to start again. I live in a  Read More 
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Jacqueline Sheehan's Green Chile Enchilada Casserole

November 23, 2009
Here is a link to Book Club Cookbook who featured my recipe for Green Chile Enchilada Casserole. Enjoy!

www.bookclubcookbook.com/RecipeJacquelineSheehan.htm

When I was writing Now & Then, the main character Anna felt the sting of poverty and lack of food for the first time in her life. She had been transported  Read More 
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One month writing in a castle

November 16, 2009
Tags: writing, fellowships, Rosslyn Chapel
Right after I decided to start a blog, I went to Scotland for a month-long writing fellowship at a castle and discovered that writing a blog was pretty hard when I had to walk for 45 minutes to get to the nearest internet. So I am back home now and promise to make up for  Read More 
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Testing the blog

September 28, 2009
This is the first blog, hopefully of many, that will be published during my residency at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland. But this is the test.
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