Sundial, a time travel romance

As Sarah Miles drives down Eighteenth Street a stranger materializes in front of her car. She throws on her brakes, braces for impact...and drives straight through him. For a moment, his voice filled with quiet despair echoes in her head. Saura. Saura. Then he is gone.

Later that day Sarah discovers the SUNDIAL and her incredible journey through time begins.

Coming October 15th

Momma Kitty Adopts Baby Squirrel

Birthdays and Murder

I was driving home listening to MPR and they were talking about something you may have already heard about.
We all know about the violence in Mexico due to the drug cartels, but this particular story brought a lump to my throat.
Fifteen people were killed at a birthday party, four of them were on a high school American football team.
Their coach is very enthusiastic about American football. He feels it keeps the young men busy, teaches them responsibility and keeps them in school where they'll have a chance to get an education and better themselves. The team even does community service.
After the shooting the coach was afraid that no one would go out for football, but the young men turned out in record numbers.
The parents of the young players who were killed continued to come to the games to support the team. One of the father's, whose son was slain, now cheers even louder. And his reason for this.... 'So my son will hear me in heaven.'

Thursday's Quote

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

~ Author Unknown

Quote for Wednesday

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

~Charles Schultz

Have You Seen This One?

Advice I Remember Contest

ADVICE I REMEMBER CONTEST

We are endlessly given advice. Usually it’s in one ear and out the other. But once in awhile something sticks.

What stuck with me: I was walking down the sidewalk back when I was in college. Since I was tall I tended to slouch. A young black male passed me and without breaking stride said, “Walk proud tall girl.’ I’m not sure why that has stuck with me, but it has. I don’t always remember to follow his advice but I’ve never forgotten it.

For a chance to win a PDF copy of GROUNDED just leave a comment mentioning the advice that stuck with you at www.downtownya.blogspot.com. The drawing will be next Sunday, September 19th.

Intro:
Be careful what you wish for.
While I’m dropping pearls of wisdom let me add, read the fine print.
Why am I wasting my time offering warnings that no one is going to listen to? Because as humans we have this unconquerable urge to try to help others learn from our mistakes. Or in this case my great, great, great, great grandmother’s mistakes.
She came from a very poor background and consequently wanted it all, riches beyond measure, beauty. Need I say more?
Great-great-plus Grams stumbled onto a genie’s lamp and made her wish.
You don’t believe in genies?
Trust me. They’re real all right. Unfortunately, when my ancient relative made her wish she didn’t bother to listen to the genie’s warning of strings attached. This lack of foresight has a direct bearing on the first born daughter of each generation, i.e. me.
To put it mildly, my life is complicated. I am literally grounded forever.
I live on a lavish estate in the mountains of North Carolina. Between sunset and dawn, my life is my own. But during the day I’m grounded in several hundred pounds of marble. If you happen to wander by the Stone estate and peep through the fence, you’ll hear the rippling sounds of water from a lovely manmade pool surrounded by lush fragrant flowers. Beside it stands a life size statue of a young woman, with long flowing hair and classic bone structure, draped in a Greek toga a cat at her feet.
The young woman is me.
The cat is Merrick.