https://lindasummersea.substack.com/p/the-spotify-playlist-from-the-girl Click the link to access the public Spotify playlist that I created in 2020 to chronologically follow the timeline of The Girl with the Black and Blue Doll from 1954 through 1972. These are the songs we heard on the big wooden Zenith radio in our kitchen on the farm, the 45s Mummy made […]
2 PM, July 29, 2026 I just posted the following “BY THE WAY” to my home page because I realize now that old blog posts are worth their weight in gold. I am NOT going to delete them. You can chose a post to read at random by clicking on a “category” on the Blog […]
For those of you who remember PBS’s Victory Garden: It was originally Crockett’s Victory Garden. From the WGBH Archives: “Hosted by James Underwood Crockett, the series offered practical advice on vegetable and flower gardening and the latest in horticultural developments. It began airing locally April 16, 1975 and premiered nationally on PBS April 7, 1976. […]
Yikes! July 21, 2016 with Brooke Warner. TEN years ago!! Brooke writes her Substack “Writerly Things” here on Substack. https://brookewarner.substack.com/ From her BIO page: Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press. She’s a memoir coach and teacher, and author of Write On, Sisters!, Green-light Your Book, What’s Your Book?, and three books on memoir. Brooke is the […]
My newest 2-minute videos are on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LindaSummersea They include a Book Trailer, Interview with publicist Danette Kubana, and a 2-minute mini-movie (image shown at left) about Summersea’s experience with Body Dysmorphic Disorder. View buying options for The Girl with the Black and Blue Doll here. 🎞️ 🎙️ ATTENTION: Are you a podcast […]
The Girl with the Black and Blue Doll is available today as an eBook and/or Paperback here at BookBaby’s online store. Please post your review on Amazon or Goodreads. I appreciate it! Read the FIRST FIVE CHAPTERS in the Free Preview below when you click on BUY ON AMAZON. Amazon has the eBook and Paperback.
Today America remembers the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on their 24-year anniversary. Like many events that are remembered for their horror, I think most of us remember where we were when we heard about the fall of the towers. The first al-Qaeda suicide mission under Osama bin-Laden hit the North Tower of the World […]
A Safe and Happy 4th of July to you. This morning, I put on my freedom t-shirt, wearing its American flag with a different feeling this year. I can’t help but feel sad for all of the chaos and trauma in the United States and certainly, around the world. Our country is experiencing a dangerous […]
This morning, as I was heading out for a brisk walk before the rains came, I found myself thinking of all the turmoil I’ve survived while treading water in the rough seas of my life during the past two years. There’s a curse, long attributed as a Chinese curse and now debunked as simply a […]
My Kindergarten best friend was also my very first friend. We were so similarly timid that we didn’t mind that our conversations were brief bits that hinted at our equally isolated upbringing. Our zen-like circuit of a cobblestone walk was our practice place for future socializing. Visit Substack to read about my first rewarding peer […]
