Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Summertime

    If it’s summer, I must be canning. I like making pickles and jams, although I haven’t done as much canning in the last couple of years as usual. Things have just been too busy, but this year, I realized that I miss doing it. This year, I was determined to get canning again. For inspiration,…

  • All Roads Lead To Rome

    This week, I took the next step in the Great Website Amalgamation. If you’ve been peeking at my purple Château Delacroix site, you may have discovered that the delacroix.net url now brings you here. The url for the Dragon Diaries (www.thedragondiaries.com) also brings you here now, as does the Claire Cross url (www.clairecross.com). You can…

  • A New Regime

    As many of you who read the blog regularly know, we lost the Queen Bee last December. She was a standard poodle, who was part of our family from the time she was a little pup. For more than 13 years, she ruled the roost in our house, and we miss her very much. Recently,…

  • In the Garden

    Some of you have asked to see pictures of my very happy garden, so here we go. First, these are images from last year, about this same time. (My garden does its best thing in June.) Alliums, with a guest. Yellow daylilies. Yellow foxgloves. Red perennial (oriental) poppy. Stonecrop. Orange annual poppy with variegated hosta.…

  • Home Again

    Phew! I’m home again, after attending both Book Expo America in New York, and Lori Foster’s RAGT in West Chester Ohio. Although I was home for a few days in between, it feels as if I’ve been gone for ages. The garden has gone *boom* and the laundry has piled up. The best part is…