Author Archives: Beverly

Happy Mother’s Day to those who have kids, are kids, or act like kids. Since May is a month of  memo­ri­al­iz­ing (May 28) as well as moth­er­hood cel­e­bra­tions (May 13), I have been think­ing about both. * * * * * My mother … Con­tinue read­ing →

It was as if she’d just gone out to get the mail. Dishes mar­i­nat­ing in the sink, left­overs in plas­tic wrap on saucers in the refrig­er­a­tor, under­gar­ments draped and dry­ing on the shower cur­tain rod. But Sada Stevens was gone … Con­tinue read­ing →

Google can tell you a lot of things, but not what to feel when you dis­cover your ex-husband has died. Search­ing online for news about for­mer fam­ily and cur­rent friends, I stum­bled over his obit­u­ary and lost my emo­tional equi­lib­rium.  It … Con­tinue read­ing →

When my twins were babies, the only writ­ing I had energy and time for was com­pos­ing gro­cery lists and “to do” reminders on pastel-colored Post-It notes. As they got older, I’d write down some of the funny things they said … Con­tinue read­ing →

Join in the fun of get­ting and giv­ing input, shar­ing feel­ings, and ask­ing ques­tion dur­ing the July 29th “Twook”…also known as a Twit­ter Book Club ses­sion. Sue and I will be tweet­ing with read­ers of Meant to Be at 9 … Con­tinue read­ing →

Nora Ephron once deliv­ered a clas­sic line to her then-new hus­band, Pulitzer Prize win­ner, and noto­ri­ous wom­an­izer, Carl Bern­stein: “Our life together is mate­r­ial.” That’s the way Sue and I feel when peo­ple ask, “Is the book auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal?” Despite being … Con­tinue read­ing →

I mean, really, what’s not to like?  Granted, there are less tedious descrip­tions of engine rooms than a Tom Clancy novel and fewer bloody bod­ies for Dirk Pitt to stum­ble over as he often does in Clive Cussler’s books, but … Con­tinue read­ing →

How can the old fash­ioned Book Club become more mod­ern? Add a dash of Social Media! That’s what one online com­mu­nity is doing with Meant To Be. It has cre­ated a Twit­ter Book Club and the very first “assigned read­ing” … Con­tinue read­ing →