July 2014 - Barbara Delinsky

Novel salad

By Barbara Delinsky | July 23, 2014 |

There will be six of us for dinner Saturday night, including a couple of really good cooks, meaning that if I try to compete, I fail. So what to serve? I may write good books, but a gourmet cook I am not. My gut tells me that it’s best to go with simple and…

My Maine Childhood

By Barbara Delinsky | July 7, 2014 |

I’m a Maine-summer girl. Some of my earliest memories are from visiting my dad’s sister’s place on Lake Sebago or my mom’s father’s cooperage in Portland. Then my mother died, and I was sent away to camp. If that sounds cruel, listen up. I was eight when my mother died. And back then, believe it…