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Old Dead “Friends”
I’ve spent a lot of my life fixating upon dead heroes, which means, as we turn into October, I’m entering my favorite other-worldly season. (Maybe “hero” isn’t quite the word, but “famous historical...
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The Carsonville Hotel
We’re at the end of the season here in the Northeast–the motorcycle season, I mean. This is just a little something about a fun Pennsylvania ride. Ride East down Powell’s Valley Road, a fairly generous...
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Reconstructing Richard
I’ve been thinking about Richard III for a long time. I was an only child who lived in a house well supplied with plenty of books, so I read a lot. When I read Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time,...
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Nighttime Intruder
The other night I’d left my elderly, portly cat Lizzie outside to fend for herself. I shouldn’t, even though the neighborhood is mostly quiet. My experience of living here is that when you least...
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Grocery Stores, Yesterday and Today
What a difference a few years makes! (Well, more like fifty, but what’s a half a century between friends?) Just after World War II, we moved to a little town in upstate New York from Ohio. I remember...
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ROAN ROSE
A snippet of a review for my new novel, ROAN ROSE, one I’ve dreamed of writing since I was a teenager. An odd synchronicity for me that the year it was finally published was also the year when Richard...
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Light My Fire
It was 1967 and you and I and everybody else heard this song by The Doors. I was a nice middle class girl attending college, but I’d already been married for two years, so the full import of Jim...
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Interview With Juliet Waldron, Author of “Roan Rose”
What is your book about? Roan Rose, my newest novel, which will soon be published by Second Wind Publishing, is a story about a peasant girl who becomes a house servant to a royal family. Their wealth...
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Excerpt From “Roan Rose” by Juliet Waldron
More like a gangland war for turf and loot than chivalry, the War of Roses disrupted the life of the English common folk for hundreds of years. Roan Rose is the story of one of these commoners, Rose...
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Top Ten Most Viewed Posts on the Second Wind Blog
The authors of Second Wind have contributed 1,340 posts to this blog. Since all of those posts are exceptional, each in their own way, it would be impossible to create a list of the ten best...
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