by Janet Berg | Dec 18, 2013 | blog
This annual holiday trip was a little different than our usual luxury vacation. We went to a small fishing village in Mexico, to experience something different. Something quaint! As we approached the town some building lots near beautiful homes like the one we rented...
by Janet Berg | Nov 21, 2013 | blog
UH-OH, that time of year is coming up – when outsiders seek refuge from the cold – usually at our house – the critters affectionately refer to it as ‘you know where those suckers live.’ It’s true. Bruce and I are more tolerant than most when the home invasion begins,...
by Janet Berg | Oct 23, 2013 | blog
WHO AM I? They named me little Janet Lee all 6 pounds, 7th of May, you need not know the year. My auburn hair in springy curls wasted on tomboy swingin’ from trees dirty, white anklets, scraped knobby knees, my sweet mother, I didn’t please… Gifts I gave, bugs in jars...
by Janet Berg | Sep 27, 2013 | blog
I’ve written many stories about my family’s blunders for a long time now, even during the twelve years I wrote forDan’s Papers of the Hamptons, when my kids used to complain, ‘Mom-m-m, how can you tell the world about our idiosyncrasies? It’s so embarrassing!’ Okay,...
by Janet Berg | Aug 7, 2013 | blog
Lines. My husband hates them; he has a phobia about the lines he has to wait on, you know with other people standing in front of you and behind you. For him – the people are always in Front. He truly does pick the wrong line every time. I’ve seen this happen over the...
by Janet Berg | Jul 15, 2013 | blog
I was over-excited to go on my trip to the Historical Novel Writer’s Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida with two of my friends, Kathleen Vermaelen and JoAnn Phoenix. We had met years ago at the MFA writing program at Stony Brook and would be among hundreds of...
