Stuart Watkins Living With A Shadow was written by SaddleBrooke author Stuart Watkins. The book is available in the SaddleBrooke Library, the SaddleBrooke Gift Shop, and on Amazon Books. Watkins writes books about the Southwest, books about places to visit in Arizona, children’s books, and poetry books. Watkins has 25 books on Amazon and is a…
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Features, June 2023
Yes, Cats Can Skateboard!
Carly and Charly Let’s Go Skateboarding is the ninth book in The Adventures of Carly & Charly series for kids five to eight years old. As two adventurous cats, we tell the story of conquering a new outdoor wilderness, on wheels no less! As new boarders, we’re careful to take lessons and assemble all the safety gear and…
Features, May 2023
Poet’s Corner
Waiting in Despair, Cinquain Stuart Watkins Hope Wish, Desire Dreaming, praying, planning Waiting, waiting Despair You Are the Flower Stuart Watkins What freedom I have found now that I have found myself and in finding have found you. What better gift than the gift of self-love for only in loving oneself can one learn to…
Features, December 2022
Resident Author: Light Fantasy and Humor Is for Everyone!
Local author EJ MacPhee to his readers and Ed McLaughlin to everyone else was born in Western New York State. He has a bachelor’s degree (Syracuse), a master’s degree (Oregon State University), and a doctorate (Stephen F. Austin State University), all in the wood engineering, science and forestry fields. He is married to his college sweetheart Kathy for more than 55…
Features, November 2022
Resident Author: Feline Authors Hit the Horse Trails and Share Their Happy Tales
Carly and Charly As SaddleBrooke authors, we set out on an animal-on-animal adventure in our latest work, Let’s Go Horseback Riding. This sixth book in the series tells the story of how we found a stable and appropriate-size horses for cats. We are quite short, after all. After first exploring Clydesdales and Friesians, we quickly…
Clubs & Classes, November 2022
SaddleBrooke Writers’ Group
Stuart Watkins The Oct. 1 meeting of the SaddleBrooke Writers’ Group meeting involved 13 members who presented their poems, short stories, and books in the process of being published. President Patricia Freemont Smith announced that election for officers for the new year are welcomed. She told of the decision to donate to the planting of trees…
Features, September 2022
Resident Author: Karla A. Trippe Publishes First Nonfiction Book
Scenes from the Valley, self-published by the author, narrates standalone stories on her journey in reaching the top of the highly competitive business world of the Silicon Valley. The book tells the real story of why more women haven’t made it to the upper echelon of management. As what started out to be a book to…
Features, June 2022
Etched in the Sand
Stuart Watkins He wrote her a love letter Etched in Daytona Beach The tide gradually washed it away The love letter she never saw Never received Never read Vanished
Features, June 2022
Just Magical
Stuart Watkins There is something magical about plucking fruit from a tree or picking strawberries, grapes and such from vines little seeds in the ground to food on the table just magical to me
Features, June 2022
A Slice of Lemon
Stuart Watkins A lemon slice plucked from your tree floats on the top of my ice water supported by cubes underneath as my lips draw in a sip of tangy water thinking of you Random thoughts come and go with no direction some have a bitter-sweet tang some dance on butterfly wings some start, fade,…