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False Alarm – Chapter 1 Podcast

Here’s chapter 1 of my podcast of my novel, False Alarm. You can also download it free on iTunes. I’d love to hear your comments. Kate McCabe, CFO of a San Francisco firm, which manages the affairs of professional athletes, arrives at the office to the athletes already calling for their money. We meet her all-male colleagues at a meeting, where Kate is obviously a fish-out of water. Her boss […]

Dog arrest

Our neighbors keep calling the police on our dogs. I wish they’d just knock on our door. Dog arrest has become common, dogs disturbing the peace the crime de jour around here in the Silicon Valley Outback. So John and I are out walking the dogs in the hills on Saturday morning and a police car pulls up real slowly. The pretty female officer rolls down her window and says […]

Daisy and Zar

Check out our dogs new tags. I have our German Shepherds, Daisy and Zar, wearing them because this morning John let them both out in the yard and only one dog came back. We were worried sick. We’re fenced in to keep out the deer and the bobcats and mountain lions (you can see where Los Gatos gets its name, The Cats)—although yesterday my brother saw a bobcat in our […]

The Incompatibles

I’m working on finishing my new novel, The Incompatibles, which is set where I live in Los Gatos, California, a character in and of itself. I still consider myself a city girl, and Los Gatos feels like the country in many ways, with the cute folksy town with its dusty antique shops, pink toes from grape stomping parties, the post office just off Main Street, where you run into […]

Bora Bora

By the way, did you know that in Bora Bora you don’t need any certification to scuba dive? That was news to me. John, who has his certification, took me on a boat with a bunch of avid divers—all men. The swarthy French guide told me I just needed to hold his hand and take the plunge with him. It started out OK, the water a brilliant aqua and […]

Someplace normal

I am not saying that it was John’s fault that our 14-year- old son brought the swine flu to Tokyo on our summer vacation at the height of the swine flu craze, or that my son and I were put in a Japanese research hospital, where from the space suits the doctors were wearing, it seemed like they thought we were carrying anthrax. It’s just that John wanted the very […]

Reluctant traveler

I grew up in Spokane, Washington and was graduated from the University of Washington in accounting

Berta’s Caesar Salad

It kills me that my mother is a better cook than I am. Why will John eat her Caesar salad but mine is too garlicky? Or “sour,” as one of the kids will pipe during dinner. John wolfs my mom’s salad and her parmesan crab crostini’s even though he’s supposedly allergic to crab. He adores his mother-in-law, which seems a little unnatural. He even wears the clothes she buys him! […]

False Alarm

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