If you missed out on the Goodreads giveaway of Under the Kaufmann's Clock: Fiction, Poems, and Photographs of Pittsburgh, you have another chance to win this book through Amazon--FREE through Aug. 19. Enter at https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/aa38e29...

My life has been filled with lakefront views and Italian cookies--although I skipped the ice cream--since my last blog post. A reunion with my mother's family on the shores of Lake Ontario and a visit to a cousin on Canandaigua Lake ALMOST sated my desire to wake up near the water. And to talk from morning until midnight!

Goodreads lists 62 books of fiction set on lakes. I have yet to write my own. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Since my last blog post, I've had another personal/political poem published at Vox Populi, and a flash fiction piece inspired by my father's hometown, an easy drive from the great lake Ontario, at Sonic Boom. Here are the links:

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/0...

http://sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/s...

Enjoy these last weeks of summer...