“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
Latest Posts
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The Story-Teller’s Desire
I believe, my dears, that I am the proudest story-teller that ever lived…To have pleased you, to have interested you, to have won your friendship, and perhaps your love, through my stories, is to my mind as great an achievement as to become President of the United States. ~ L. Frank Baum, author of the…
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Yes, Dear Hearts, There is Good News
It is easy to get all caught up in the sadness of the violence of the past days, the Dallas shootings, and before that shootings in cities across our nation–I’m sorry, I do not keep up and don’t even know how this big wave of outrage and killing got started, whose to blame, what needs…
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If Wishes Were Horses
Dear Ones, I’m so excited! The project is completed. IF WISHES WERE HORSES PART 1, PART 2, AND PART 3 have gone live on Amazon Kindle! Check them out. I’ll be creating a page for the books soon. Right now I’m just so happy to have finished the project and getting on with working on…
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“You Got to Please Yourself…dat, da, da, da…”
I just now looked over at the original cover of If Wishes Were Horses, and lyrics to Garden Party by Ricky Nelson popped into my head. It is true, you can’t please everyone, but you do, first and foremost in any art, have to please yourself. If Wishes Were Horses was published in 1998 by…
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Entertain Great Hopes
This quote came in my email this morning: I looked at those words a long time, and then I played around to make an image while I thought about them. I do often have great hopes. Hey, I got out of bed this morning, and only on hope. We can mix in a lot of…
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~ Contra Costa Times
Curtiss Ann Matlock 