Posts Tagged ‘linda gray sexton author’
WRAPPING IT UP!
At this time of year most of us are buying and wrapping multiple gifts. We are focused on all the happiness that the season can bring, and not much on its complications. We plan how to decorate our homes and our trees and what will accompany the roast beef for Christmas dinner. We don’t often…
Read MoreTHE TRUE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON
While for some people December is a season of joy, filled with the happiness of giving and receiving, it can be a tough time of year for others. Amidst the happy revelers ringing their bells and singing their carols, and among those who live for and love the holidays, there are those who walk alone…
Read MoreSPOTTED UNDER THE MISTLETOE
The Bespotted Quartet Wishes You A Joyous Holiday And A Bountiful New Year Linda, Mac, Breeze and Cody
Read MoreTURNING THE WILD ANIMALS LOOSE
We are having ten people for Thanksgiving dinner, a mix of family and new friends, and unfortunately my dogs are not quiet and relaxed when people arrive. Like many Dalmatians, they bark and bark and work up a storm around the visitors, acting like a bunch of wild animals. Everyone invited will be overwhelmed as…
Read MorePUPPIES DESERVE MORE THAN GIFT WRAP
I continued my publicity tour for Bespotted last week and encountered a question I did not find surprising, but which was unanticipated nevertheless. ”After the re-release of 101 Dalmatians,” asked a member of the audience at a bookstore reading, “wasn’t there a run on the breed that resulted in nasty temperaments and a lot of…
Read MoreREMEMBER HEART DOGS YOU HAVE LOVED
How many of us have had what is called a “heart dog?” Tons of those reading this, I suspect. If you have finished, or are in the middle of, Bespotted, you will have discovered the inimitable Gulliver, to whom I dedicate the book as “dog of my heart,” which means the same thing. Some of…
Read MoreTODAY, CODY TAKES THE HELM OF “BESPOTTED!”
In today’s newsletter and also here on the blog, it is Cody who comes to greet our readers–wagging his tail until it is nothing but a blur, and grinning his crinkly Dalmatian smile. He is the first dog in our household, but not the last, who stayed on when he was not meant to. Born…
Read MoreMEET MAC! “BESPOTTED’S” COVER DOG!
As I promised you in my last newsletter, today you will meet one of my Dalmatians. I have chosen to tell you an anecdote about Mac, our youngest, as he is the “cover dog” for Bespotted. You can watch Mac as he grows up in the photos below this blog. Mac was born into a litter of…
Read MorePRAISE FOR BESPOTTED
“Bespotted is a brave and wonderful book. The first chapter about the origin of the famous poem by Anne Sexton, “Live,” is precious both for the history it recounts with an authenticity nobody else could claim, as well as for its insight into one of the great poems of the language (hint: it is a poem made…
Read More“BESPOTTED:” MY FAMILY’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH THIRTY-EIGHT DALMATIANS”
WEEOOWW! Another book on the shelves! Can’t quite believe it. Number nine is lighter and more fun and filled with laughter and joy than the others, as remembering takes me back to a wonderful time of my life, and then right up to the present, surrounded by these magical beings who live with and love…
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