Month: October 2015

Southern author Bette Lee Crosby invited me to be her first guest on her new blog page “Cocktail Conversations.” I met Bette Lee when we both were listed on the BookBub Women’s Ficti

  Home Fires Season 1 Episode 1 British television sensation Home Fires has crossed the pond and is now airing on Masterpiece Theater in the US. Based upon the novel Jambusters, Home Fires follow

Home Fires Season 1 Episode 2 Review England has entered the war against Germany and the bucolic beauty of Great Paxford in the late summer sunshine is marred by troupes training in the streets. Our h

Home Fires Season 1 Episode 3 Review It’s now November 1939. As the conflict rages in Europe, internal turmoil brews at home. Farming is a reserved occupation, so Stanley Farrow is exempt from compu

Home Fires Season 1 Episode 3 Review The war intrudes on Great Paxford, as more iron gates are collected and rationing enforced. Miriam Brindsley’s “possible mistake filling out the form” comes