Happy New Year. I really enjoyed reading this essay about how you were named, about your family heritage, and about how you embraced the simplicity of your husband’s last name when you made it your own. I wish you the very best on your endeavors to get that book done, and I will be one anxious to read it.
I grew up in, and still live in Colorado Springs, CO where Helen Hunt Jackson once lived and where she is buried. I remember being fascinated by her from an early age when I first learned about her and the book “Romona.” The home where she once lived still stood when I was child, and since it wasn’t far from my own home, I was intrigued and curious about the house and her all the more. Sadly the house was torn down in the name of progress.
I once had a small book of her essays which I somehow lost. I must buy another if I can find it in print. She wrote essays that described her adjustment to the terrain and culture of Colorado which was so foreign to her in the beginning. She came here for her health, as so many did in those days. She had tuberculosis. I think she’d be cheering you on in your own writing goals. She really was a fascinating and accomplished woman and a role model I have admired since my childhood.
Happy New Year! What a wonderful goal for this year, and I am sure you will achieve it! My word of the year is dream, so I loved seeing that word through your writing... dreaming big in 2024!
I love your writing and very much hope your three names appear on that book you want to publish. Just a word of advice? caution? whatever.... If you're hoping to publish through the traditional process (as opposed to Indie, which is self-publishing), your chances increase by leaps and bounds (oops! cliche😜) if you can convince them you have at least one more book in you. The financial and energetic outlay for a publisher to launch a new author is simply not worth it for one book unless it's a true gangbuster. Good luck!
Lovely memories. Little Italy must have been a warm and vibrant community. Do you still speak Italian? I will have to learn as my daughter is marrying an Italian.
The book sounds like it was ahead of its time. And Hollywood made a movie version too. Impressive.
Happy New Year, Ramona Gracia Grigg.
I can't wait to see your name (all of your names) in that cover!
Ramona is such a beautiful, musical name.
Your vivid descriptions bring your families to life. How blessed/lucky you are to have such memories.
Sounds like an exciting year. Good luck with the book. Happy New Year x
Happy New Year. I really enjoyed reading this essay about how you were named, about your family heritage, and about how you embraced the simplicity of your husband’s last name when you made it your own. I wish you the very best on your endeavors to get that book done, and I will be one anxious to read it.
I grew up in, and still live in Colorado Springs, CO where Helen Hunt Jackson once lived and where she is buried. I remember being fascinated by her from an early age when I first learned about her and the book “Romona.” The home where she once lived still stood when I was child, and since it wasn’t far from my own home, I was intrigued and curious about the house and her all the more. Sadly the house was torn down in the name of progress.
I once had a small book of her essays which I somehow lost. I must buy another if I can find it in print. She wrote essays that described her adjustment to the terrain and culture of Colorado which was so foreign to her in the beginning. She came here for her health, as so many did in those days. She had tuberculosis. I think she’d be cheering you on in your own writing goals. She really was a fascinating and accomplished woman and a role model I have admired since my childhood.
Happy New Year! What a wonderful goal for this year, and I am sure you will achieve it! My word of the year is dream, so I loved seeing that word through your writing... dreaming big in 2024!
“Mold and spices and heaven.” Now THAT is a smell.
I love your writing and very much hope your three names appear on that book you want to publish. Just a word of advice? caution? whatever.... If you're hoping to publish through the traditional process (as opposed to Indie, which is self-publishing), your chances increase by leaps and bounds (oops! cliche😜) if you can convince them you have at least one more book in you. The financial and energetic outlay for a publisher to launch a new author is simply not worth it for one book unless it's a true gangbuster. Good luck!
A great title and subtitle and an even better dream! I love that you have your eye on a book with your three beautiful names on the cover.
Wishing you a wonderful year ahead.
Piece of cake! Happy New Year, Ramona!
Happy New Year RGG! Your three names sing!
Lovely memories. Little Italy must have been a warm and vibrant community. Do you still speak Italian? I will have to learn as my daughter is marrying an Italian.
The book sounds like it was ahead of its time. And Hollywood made a movie version too. Impressive.
I’m looking forward to this.
This is so thrilling. Excited for you. Love the storytelling around the name we will see on that book cover.