Whales.

Whales are beautiful, intelligent, creatures. They bring joy to us with no crazy shopping days where shop clerks get trampled to death. It's sad on dry land.

In the 1980's I would go out with the scientists from Provinceton, MA, and study the humpback whales. I won an award from the NJ Marine Sciences Consortium and Cook College for a paper I wrote one summer. I was in Law School at the time but was bored and wrote the paper Whale Watching: It May be Hazardous to their Health. I'll have to type it up and put the link on my blog.

Here's a list of whales seen up at Cape Cod this year (and previous years).
http://www.coastalstudies.org/what-we-do/humpback-whales/whale-sightings-list.htm

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Every thing you wanted to know about the Magna Carta but...

My hometown in England, Bury St. Edmunds in the Borough of St. Edmundsbury, is associated with the famous Magna Carta. See the town's coat of arms above.

The motto of the Borough, Sacrarium Regis, Cunabula Legis, means Shrine of a King, Cradle of the Law. The King is St. Edmund, King of the East Angles, who was killed by invading Danes in 869. His shrine stood for centuries in the medieval Abbey of St. Edmund, and from him the town derived its name. Cradle of the Law refers to the tradition that in 1214 the barons of England met in the AbbeyChurch and swore that they would force King John to accept the Charter of Liberties later known as Magna Carta.

The clauses of Magna Carta were also echoed in early American colonial charters, in the American Declaration of Independence (1776) and in the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Three of its clauses still stand on the English Statute Book, including its most famous one protecting free men from arbitrary imprisonment and prohibiting the sale, denial or delay of justice.

See some photos here:
http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/play/magna-carta-pictures.cfm

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Free lancing we will go...

Free lancing we will go, free lancing we will go, with laptop and thee-saur-us, free lancing we will go.

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I enjoy writing short stories, so I've joined the TrueWriters loop. TrueWriters write stories for True Romance and True Experience.

Also joined the Woman's World loop of writers who write romance and mystery stories for the magazine.

I'm enjoying this new world of free lance writing!

Meanwhile I'm still writing a mystery series and participating in NaNo.

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Home again

Back home again - had surgery yesterday to take out one of the bolts in my ankle.

Doing fine and working on the NaNo manuscript today.

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Next book in the Kate Bart Mystery series.

I'm now working on the next book in the series: Plastered in a Stonington Winery.

I'm writing it on NaNo (National Novel writing month) where you try to write a novel of 50,000 words during November.

I did my research for this book at our friends' winery. Visit their site, the Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard, to learn about wine making: http://www.wiemer.com/

Go vote!!!

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