Marlene Hauser
Blogs
These blogs are a chance to share with you more personally how I feel about things going on in my life and/or in the world at large. Sometimes they are directly related to my books, but most often they are not.
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Hi Everyone, The end of the year: December! Hardly seems time yet to do a review of 2024. But by coincidence my Oxford Black n’ Red notebook ran out today, the first of December. Before tossing it in...
Hi Everyone, I recently heard someone use the expression ‘information from nowhere.’ What she seemed to be saying was that sometimes (and this was, she felt, her particular quirk) information about a...
Hi Everyone, While many people class my novel Geraniums as historical fiction, I do not. Set in the 1960s and ’70s, I tag it modern-day, as those were years I lived through. History was within easy...
Hi Everyone, When was the last time you bought a lottery ticket? Growing up in my family home, games of chance were verboten, forbidden, evil and a slippery slope to who knows were. Hell, I assume...
Hi Everyone, The back seat. Some say it eventually hits every parent, mums and dads alike, but while some go with the flow, I understand others go kicking and screaming into that dark night, some even...
Hi Everyone, “Always arrive early.” That’s what my grandmother said and that’s what she did. Why? Being “on time” to my grandmother Anne Theresa meant being early, even if you had to wait. In...
Hi Everyone, June? How can it be? I was trying to hold back April and then May rolled in, and of course the garden? Well, that just keeps rolling right along, regardless. Yes, it is bursting with all...
Hi Everyone, Doldrums. I’ve always liked that word. It felt to me like a special, maybe even mythical place, and apparently to some degree it is. Doldrums is a nautical term that refers to the belt...
Hi Everyone, Over twenty years ago, I adapted the Estonian novel The Czar’s Madman for the screen. That particular adaptation, sadly, has never been produced, despite my being told by the author’s...