News! My dining room is lined with this 1970s wallpaper complete with fluorescent-orange flowers.
It’s a Christmas miracle!
News! My dining room is lined with this 1970s wallpaper complete with fluorescent-orange flowers.
It’s a Christmas miracle!
PAPERBACKS of Right Back Where We Started From! Here I am opening the box of paperbacks of my novel, Right Back Where We Started From! They're coming out August 16! I'm almost more excited about the paperback than I was about the […]
I had the pleasure to speak to Mandy Jackson-Beverly on The Bookshop Podcast about my novel, Right Back Where We Started From. Listen Here.
After five-months of practicums, weekly classes, and a grueling 100-question exam, I graduated from the Sonoma County Master Gardener program! Here I am with my … certificate? Degree? Anyway, I’m a Master Gardener now.
I have been married to Kyle Rankin for 20 years! I can’t believe it. Much of our marriage is recorded on this site. He is the best, my best friend, the best father, the best husband. We went to Paris to celebrate. […]
I’m honored and excited to share that I was awarded a Courage to Write grant from The de Groot Foundation! I’m so grateful for their support as I finish up my second novel.
My article Flight of the Condors, originally published in Alta Magazine, was a finalist in the 64th Southern California Journalism Awards. Read the full list of winners here.
Leona!
I don’t get it. Is this what you are putting up or what you unearthed?
Merry Christmas!
Joy
Leona! I would not put that in. It is under the white board in the dining room. we were putting in trim on the doorway and decided the cheap boards that were there needed to go. This is underneath. So now I get to steam wallpaper — again. Ugh.
Leona
I used this goo– an enzyme– that ate the wallpaper glue and then I used some kind of scraper to get it off. I think it was easier than steaming. Do you know what I am talking about?
joy
Yes I do. We will probably texture over the paper and paint it white. It is weird, thick cardboard-like stuff.