Elizabeth Varadan's Fourth Wish

Please come visit me on my blog, HERE I'll be blogging about travel, art, writing, at my new location and would love to see you at the new site. Meanwhile, Victorian Scribbles will still c...

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'Twas the Night AFTER Christmas And all through the town EVERY person was stirring - Even a clown! We took our evening walk last night and the historic area was jumping! Outside A Brasi...

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Wishing you all a happy Christmas season and/or whatever other holidays you celebrate instead.  In Braga (and all over Portugal), the wish is Feliz Natal e Feliz Ano Novo, or Boas Festas (Good ...

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 It's wonderful to be here. The Christmas season is upon us, and it's being celebrated brilliantly (i.e., with lot's of lights and window displays.) Roasted chestnuts on a cold night.  ...

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 Recently, while mulling over my next mystery to write, I've been reading a lot of poetry. A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled on this beautiful collection of Seamus Heaney's poems—100 of them o...

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       It's great to be back. It's raining here, which Portugal needs, although the drought areas are mainly in the south and Braga is in the North. But the first few days of rain, it wa...

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    We are in a hotel for two days before we leave first for Pittsburgh (tomorrow) to visit Rajan's brother and family, and then for Portugal (Saturday, arriving Sunday.) We are exc...

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 Just packing, taking trips to Goodwill, hiding out during house showings, and finishing up goodbye visits and doctor visits. I've been finishing reading a good book, too, that I want to revi...

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 The long silence this time is due to the crazyness of our October - shown in this calendar: We've crammed in visits with friends, doctor appointments, poetry meetings, house showings with ...

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So here is what has been happening that has kept me too busy to post, but not too busy to read and relax from all the hustle and bustle: One big thrill is my book signing coming up. But here ...

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 There are additional reasons I've been too busy to post, but I will be back soon, posting away. 

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 I've been on a reading binge. Oh the pleasures of reading a good book! 

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  I subscribe to "Poem-a-Day" at POETS.ORG  and the site sends . . . a poem a day. Some I like and save in a folder, and some I don't and delete. I saved this one. (Check out the site by clic...

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 So these came this week!  Now I'm getting ready for a book signing on October 8th. (Stay tuned.) Meanwhile, we had lunch today with old friends, and that made me happy, too. We hadn't s...

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Some time ago I posted a review of Cindy Sample's latest cozy mystery, Birthdays Are Murder, which is the start of her new series: (You can revisit the review HERE ) Ever since then, I hav...

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                                        This cute little fella was a gift from a friend we made at a bar/restaurant in the Burgus Tribute and Design Hotel in Braga. We often...

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  Today Deadly Verse went live in paperback at Amazon. You can check it out HERE . Needless to say, I'm excited to see this finally in print.  The Shoutouts: I love how many of these b...

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Recently four blog friends have given my new book shoutouts on their blogs, and there are more to come. I would like to share their blogs with you for other reasons, as well. All are accomplished...

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We are in Galicia right now, "resting up" from all the last intense days of preparing for the shippers to come and pack up in Braga and to prepare for the move itself (i.e., clean the flat...

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  What's on my mind? Packing and the Feira do Livro (Book Fair). The packers (7 of them!) arrived this morning at 8:30 and have been busy since. They are scheduled for two days, but...

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 I know I have been silent on this blog for quite a while, but two big things were going on: My publisher was putting together a promotion video for my new book, and I was posting events of the ...

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 My other news is that my new cozy, Deadly Verse, will be released in June. The build up begins this month, but my publisher told me to feel free about splashing the cover around, so here you ar...

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 I'm an afficianado of cozy mysteries, which is why I write them instead of thrillers or suspense, etc. So recently I read this delightful cozy by Cindy Sample, Birthdays Are Murder: It’...

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Dear friends: So here is what has been happening that has kept us so busy: Difficult and wrenching as the decision is, we are going to move back to Sacramento in August. We LOVE Portugal. Livi...

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 I don't mean to be unsociable, but a lot is happening right now. Good stuff, but a lot. See you soon. 

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