Kitselman Yogi Gives Away Ranch Under Spell

Sandra’s Occasional Newsletter – Oct 2021

  A little bit of news… but not too much.  “Love the book you’re writing because you’ll read it a hundred times.” – Posted in the Santa Barbara Writers Conference Facebook Group Shameless Promotion In this year of the 75th Anniversary of Operation Crossroads, the first postwar atomic bomb tests at Bikini in 1946, the series…

The Marilu Norden Story

Sandra’s Occasional Newsletter – July 2021

  A little bit of news… but not too much.  A Favorite Quote Shameless Promotion: 75 Years Ago At Bikini Read Excerpts from Bill McGee’s Atomic Memoir  Watch Archival Film Footage Listen NBC Radio Live from Bikini, Test Baker, 25 July 1946   Once Upon a Time in RENO: The Marilu Norden Story In 1951, the…

Sandra’s Occasional Newsletter – May 2021

  A little bit of news… but not too much.    My Word of the Month Recently, someone in a Zoom meeting used a word new to me: “meh”.  Defined as an expression of indifference or boredom, “meh” must be spoken with a shrug of the shoulders. The word can be traced back to the 1928…

Sandra's Occasional Newsletter - February 2021

Sandra’s Occasional Newsletter – April 2021

  A little bit of news… but not too much.    My Mantra of the Moment This mantra has been serving me so well, I’m repeating it for this month. In February, a friend gifted me with a little book, Empowering Mantras for Awesome Women, and the lipstick mantra spoke to me (surprise, surprise). The book is…