A chance meeting often leads to a new idea, and pretty soon, I’m in discovery mode, learning something I hoped to find or finding something I had no idea existed. … More Good Things Happen in Small Places
Welcome to our 2023 Emilie Loring Tea! If you still have photos to share, send them in, and I’ll add on. I believe that everyone’s tea photos from Monday are now included (thanks to the Blue Hill Public Library’s working internet!). Also, as I walked in today: On to tea! Solo Tea on Blue Hill … More Emilie Loring Tea 2023: A Lovely Time for All
Heat up those teakettles, and grab your copies of Happy Landings and Emilie Loring’s novels. It’s time for our annual Emilie Loring Tea! Whether you go solo or have a little party, send photos, tell me about your event, and I’ll do the rest. Send to me at: contact@pattibender.com All day Monday and into Tuesday, … More Tea for Two: Emilie Loring and Happy Landings Readers!
“You never can tell at sunup what you’ll bump into before sundown…” Here Comes the Sun Since my last post, I have torn out carpet, rejuvenated wood floors, patched and painted walls, scrubbed just about anything that would sit still long enough, cooked meals, hung curtains, sorted books, rescued an antique dresser, shopped for furniture … More Emilie Loring: Bookstores and Secret Drawers
The pearl. The prize. The event I had imagined since first I stepped into the library where Emilie Loring wrote twenty-five of her thirty novels: the Boston Athenaeum. … More Happy Landings at the Boston Athenaeum
Two weeks ago, bags and books packed, I set out on a 3000-mile journey from Kansas to the east coast and back again. My next book talk was in Barnstable, but there’s a lot of country between Kansas and the Cape, and I took advantage of the opportunity. Virginia and Maryland I stopped at the … More Happy Landings from Kansas to the Cape
Can you tell what I’ve been up to? This really is so much fun. I love putting presentations together, and I love giving them. At the university, I taught a hiking/biking/canoeing class that was cross-listed as a Kansas Studies class. We set out via the mode-du-jour each morning and stopped to view the plants, geographic … More Emilie Loring Returns to Barnstable
The Emilie Loring Collection 