Pauline Baird Jones

  • “Let be myself and then I am satisfied.” #InternationalWomensDay

    Today is International Women’s Day.  “I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.” Anne Frank Reading THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK was…

  • The #Grandma Who Lived

    The Grandma not only lived, she loved every moment of her holiday #GrandmaProject. Now the aftermath? Being left in an empty house? That is not so great. But it is part of the Circle of Life, so I will be brave (mostly). One of my kids asked me what I was going to do when…

  • First She Read. Then She Wrote

    So, a long time ago, and not that far away, there was a girl who loved to read. She loved to read so much that she’d sneak-read under the bed covers when she was supposed to be asleep. She’d try to read while walking to and from school. Mixed success there. She’d even try to…

  • What Do You See?

    One of the things I love about the hubs is that he sees things I don’t, or perhaps it is that he sees things differently from me. He expands my view of the world around me, even when I’m not with him. This image popped up first in his Flickr feed and totally grabbed my…

  • To Sleep Perchance to NOT Dream

    Last Monday I mentioned I’ve been a “little” stressed, well, sometimes that stress spills over into my dreams. I’ve sometimes wondered if my dreams are complicated and strange because I have a huge imagination, or if they are complicated and strange, because I’m complicated and strange. Or if that’s just how dreams are. My stress…

  • Perilous P’s Interview “Selfie”

    Some years ago, when I was a newbie author, I started interviewing myself because no one else was. I called them “The Behind the Book” interviews. And then I went one step further and interviewed myself about what it was like to interview me. Yeah, it got a little weird. But I do get questions…

  • Sequoia Awestruck

    So, the hubs and I had occasion to travel to California last week on family business. When the business wrapped up, we had a chance to make a run up to Sequoia National Park. I had a cold and almost didn’t go, but I’m SO glad I did. I’ve always had a fascination with trees.…

  • After the Storm: Peace. Well, Relative Peace

    Every January, despite that whole, yay-it’s-a-fresh-new-year thing, I feel this urge to go on a writer’s retreat. Or just retreat. Not exactly sure which. Because I grew up around mountains and creeks, (cricks) this is generally where I imagine myself summoning the Muse (or using the crick to drown out my whining). I have yet…

  • A Shocking Secret is Revealed…

    I’ve decided it is time to reveal my most shocking secret. Well, not exactly a secret if you’ve read my books. But I know when I tell people that my books have romance in them, there are assumptions made. So here goes. There is no sex in my novels. There is some romantic tension, but…

  • The Grandma Project – Help!

    Sometime in the next month, I’m going to become a grandmother for the first time. Twice. Yup. Twins. You probably know this because I’ve only mentioned it a few thousand times here, on Twitter and FaceBook and to random strangers who make the mistake of looking at me for one second. Yup, the hermit is…