Marilyn's Musings

A big reason we love to go to Temecula for the Erle Stanly Gardner mystery weekend and the writer's conference is because we get to see our two grandkids who live in the area plus spend time with their families. We spend the first night in Wildomar with Genie's family. She's always been a delight to us. She's a school speech therapist and her hubby a deputy. They have two children. Their pictures will be up on Wednesday, Veteran's Day. We spend the second night in Temecula with Patrick's family. He's had a rough time lately because the job he thought he'd have until retirement disappeared. He has found another job but at the moment it's not paying the bills. His wife works full time and has a part time job. They have three kids. The youngest is in this one with his dad. It takes a long time to get down to Temecula and we are not fond of driving on the freeways at all. Hubby likes to drive the speed limit--or 5 miles over--which does seem to upset the...

We had a great time in Wildomar and Temecula. Stayed the first night with granddaughter, Genie, hubby, Mark and two kids, Garrett and Peyton. In the a.m. we headed over to Old Towne Temecula where I gave a talk on Novel Writing--though in one hour I only could hit the highlights, but I had handouts like I usually do. At the booksigning time, one of my Blue Birds from years ago came to buy Dispel the Mist for herself and her mother. Wow, did that bring back memories from long long ago. That is the picture I posted, of Debbie Klinger Stiver and myself. I was a really young mom when I first became a Blue Bird leader--I continued on with Camp Fire Girls and had the group until they graduated from 12th grade. From there we went to our grandson Patrick's house--he was born on our anniversary year ago--and we had a great visit with him, his wife, Lucy, and there three kids, Emily, Olivia and Ethan--and we spent the night before heading home. We also made one more stop--to see where we wen...