by JHowatt | Jan 31, 2023 | Life Style
I’ll Pay Ten Euros for a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich December 24. I didn’t sip the Welcome Aboard flute of champagne like a proper Lufthansa Business Class passenger. I gulped it down, savoring every drop while Jim arranged the mattress, pillows, and blanket for... 
by JHowatt | Jan 24, 2023 | Life Style
“We’re Late! We’re Late! For A Very Important Date!” December 23, 2022. The twenty-one hour-marathon from California to our Florence VRBO was one week away. We’d been counting the days until the limo would appear in our driveway to whisk us away to the airport, the... 
by JHowatt | Nov 30, 2022 | Life Style
Yakity-Yak Adventure: Part Two May 2022. There’s nothing like coming face to face with a drooling, snorting pile of shaggy black fur that looked like a primitive rug from Tibet. Instead, this creature was living on a ranch just an hour and a half from a glitzy... 
by JHowatt | Nov 17, 2022 | Life Style
Yakity-Yak – My Wild and Wooly Visit to the Sierra Valley Yaks Ranch May 2022. For as many years as I can remember, my husband, Jim, and I vacationed in the Sierra Nevada where his family had a cedar cabin summer home near a small, mountain village called Graeagle... 
by JHowatt | Oct 27, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style, News
Pick a Dream. Any Dream. Then Do It. October 10, 2022. Camarillo, California. Why is it that the day a dream finally happens is a day like all the rest? I fixed the dogs their breakfast of Farmer’s Dog mixed with kibble, then I headed outside past the fire pit and... 
by JHowatt | Sep 23, 2022 | Life Style
Grandma Sam: “Victory! A Hole in One and A Perfect Apple Pie!” June 1969. Few first meetings have terrified me more than the one I was about to have with my future mother-in-law, Adria Berniece Howatt – wife of Colonel William J. Howatt, recently retired from an...