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M. Kate Quinn: Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2017 4:11 PM
Indelible Mark It's been a while since I've done a blog post, but something happened today that just needs to be shared. Got my roots touched up and my hair trimmed this morning. After the goop was slathered onto my head and dabbed onto my ever-graying brows (I looked charming) I sat back with a back issue ofGood Housekeepingand waited for the chemicals in my hair to do their job. A man around my age came into the salon and sat in the chair next to mine. |
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M. Kate Quinn: Posted on Thursday, April 30, 2015 1:28 PM
With my new book,Restless Spiritdue to release soon, I've been thinking about ghosts. As a true Scorpio, I've had a life-long fascination. Do you believe? Have you ever had an unearthly visitor? Back when I was a kid, my cousin, Donna, and I spent many a time with a Ouija Board planted between us with our pre-teen fingers pressed onto the triangular device that was supposed to move by some spooky energy to reveal cryptic messages. |
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M. Kate Quinn: Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2015 12:48 PM
With my fifth book in the hands of my publisher as we speak, I've learned many things along this writer's path and one of the most important is that being an author is never about the money. A book is diligence and creativity and business all wrapped up in a neat 300-page package. But, most of all, writing a novel is about connection. My greatest hope is to touch others, evoke something in my readers, make them laugh and make them think, hope, reminisce, dream. |
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M. Kate Quinn: Posted on Friday, June 27, 2014 3:10 PM
 Boomer Humor A Free Donut
There's a card in my wallet with my name on it. It sits among my credit cards and my Wegman's courtesy card as well as my Barnes & Noble membership. Yet, this little red-as-a-STOP-sign rectangle of plastic bears four mocking letters: AARP.
When I first received it, questions zoomed around in my head. Is this just another example of this Boomer's steady saunter away from the girl I used to be? |
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M. Kate Quinn: Posted on Thursday, November 07, 2013 5:17 PM
About a year ago I started making myself a nightly cup of tea. Well after dinner when it's time to settle on the sofa with my husband and watch a favorite show or two, I don my pj's and put the kettle on The second gem in my "Sixty for Sixty" plan of incorporating sixty things into my daily life to honor this crazy ago of 60, is, simply, to embrace the ritual of making that daily cup of tea. Tea is ancient,. Buddhism, a religion based on the beliefs and practices of Buddha, "the awakened one," embraces tea drinking as a ritualistic practice. |
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M. Kate Quinn: Posted on Wednesday, November 06, 2013 3:01 PM
: I've dreaded turning sixty.Yet, just two days in at this new number I've thought, wait a minute. I'm asexagenarianand that's quite a group to be among. And when your title begins with "sex" I've decided you don't mourn lost youth, you don't drown yourself in expensive creams and lotions until you look like you're coated in Miracle Whip, and you don't run out and get a tattoo. No. When you turn sixty, you make it count. |
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MK: Posted on Monday, August 26, 2013 3:28 PM
This Friday I will be attending a meeting here in my neighborhood where a group of ladies will gather to share their quest to write their memoirs. I've been invited to speak on the topic of writing and perhaps motivate the group toward their memoir goals. I've decided to bring a list of writing prompts, words and ideas that can spark putting pen to paper. Trust me, I've had to do this for myself from time to time. I've sat at many a blank screen watching that pulsing cursor all but laughing at me while I conjure nothing. |
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M. Kate Quinn: Posted on Wednesday, July 03, 2013 4:10 PM
My husband and I record our favorite television shows using the DVR feature from our cable hookup. It happens to be a great way to keep current with your favorite programs, as well as allowing you to watch one while recording another. A bonus, of course, is the fact that you can zip past commercials. You can view an hour prime time program in about forty minutes, a half-hour show in seventeen. Handy, yes? Here's the new issue at our house: |
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M. Kate Quinn: Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 2:26 PM
On our recent trip to Lancaster, PA, with great friends the six of us made a plan to take a thirty-mile motorbike tour of covered bridges. Fun, right? Well, the three of us women started chickening out at the last minute. It started when we saw the scooters. I don't know what images the other ladies had in their heads about what this scooter would look like, but I can tell you my image was made by Mattel. |
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M. Kate Quinn: Posted on Monday, June 03, 2013 12:05 PM
That's what they call us, you know,The Sandwich Generation. We care for our kids and we care for our parents. Sometimes it means caring for a sister or a friend, as well. Right now my sandwich is a triple-decker and I realize it's what's on the menu for me at this stage of my life. There's a bunch of stuff going on in my family's world right now and we're all a bit off our axis. I've been feeling like the guy on Ed Sullivan with the plates on sticks. |
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