by Carolyn Bass | Nov 27, 2024 | Fiction, Fiction Excerpts, Ovations
Maybe other kids slept in on Thanksgiving morning, relishing the day off from school and looking forward to playing with family and friends as the grown-ups cooked, played cards, or watched football on TV. Other kids might have turned over in their beds and dreamed...
by Carolyn Bass | Aug 26, 2021 | Fiction Excerpts, Ovations
The young female protagonist in my WIP struggles with the impending divorce of her mother and father. She knows her father is extremely predjudiced against what were called “coloreds” in 1967, but he’s her Daddy and she loves him for all of the good...
by Carolyn Bass | Aug 24, 2021 | Fiction, Fiction Excerpts, Ovations
It’s 1967 and the young protagonist in my WIP gets a visit from her school principal who happens to be black. In those days the polite way of referring to a person of African heritage was to call them “colored.” While this scene is completely...
by Carolyn Bass | Apr 15, 2021 | Ovations
One of my mother’s fondest memories of me as a young child occurred when she was scouting for Autumn Leaf dishes. It was 1962, we lived in Ontario, California, and I was about three years old. She had loaded my two sisters and me into our big, lime green, 1954...
by Carolyn Bass | Feb 13, 2021 | Recipes
Having grown up in Southern California, my family grew tomatoes year around. It wasn’t uncommon to have tomatoes still ripening on our backyard vines at Christmas time. Now that we live in the South where tomato pie is a staple during the summer, I cannot...
