Pauline Baird Jones

  • It Started With a Nightmare…Why I Wrote THE LAST ENEMY

    Sometimes I’ll read a book or see a movie and wish I’d written it. It is part of the fun (for me) of being a reader and a writer. Some writers can only bring their writer brain to a book, but for me it is a two-part process. My reader arrives first. I read the…

  • On Clean Houses and LIFE.

    We had family this past weekend and I love, love, love it.  We had much chatting. We had much hugging. We remembered and we played with and hugged and kissed babies. Yum! One of the things I do to prepare for incoming is to clean. Or, on good months, I find someone to come shovel…

  • A #GrandmaProject Update

    As I crawl piteously from the “nasty summer cold” zone, and my brain begins to (creakily) turn over once more, I thought it might be time for a Grandma Project update. If you follow my blog at all, then you know we got a twofer when my son’s wife gave birth to twins. I knew…

  • Dragging My Memory Back to High School

    So, as previously mentioned, my high school reunion is this month. It’s been 40 years, so I’m not worried about what to wear or trying to repair the ravages of time. Thanks to FaceBook, most of my classmates have already had time to process time’s b*tch slapping. Gravity has not been kind either. It happens.…

  • The Summer of My Reunion O.O

    So, this month I will be attending my [deep breath here] 40th high school reunion. It’s not like I didn’t know I’m old as dirt. I know my age. But I hadn’t done the math on how long I’d been out of high school, so it was kind of a shock when the email showed…