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Happy Birthday to the Trees!

February 6, 2023 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

palm tree and raiblow

Happy birthday to the trees! Happy Tu B’Shvat, the birthday or festival of the trees! I’ve always felt an odd affinity for trees. In eighth grade we each did an […]

Filed Under: artists, Jewish law, love Tagged With: #birthday, #creation, #festivals, #poems, #trees, holidays

Scone or Irish Soda Bread?

October 26, 2022 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

Irish soda bread

After a trip to Ireland, I created this scone-like Irish soda bread recipe. Luscious, a bit lemony, a bit tangy. Bring out the butter!

Filed Under: advice, Food, Ireland, love Tagged With: #baking, #bread, #gingeredwhisk, #irish, #irishsodabread, #scones, #travel, love

An old law leads to forced marriage–can this bride be saved?

June 29, 2021 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

 Barcelona, 1584 Dear Madam Mariana,  I dare not ask this question of anyone I know but–I must seek counsel.  In Jewish law, when a man dies, his brother is obligated […]

Filed Under: advice, Jewish law, love, sons, Uncategorized, widows Tagged With: #eggs, #fertility, #fertility foods, #halitzah, #indiewriter, #levirate marriage, #levirate union, #lovelorn #MadamMariana, #mandrakes, #Pride and Prejudice, #womensfiction, advice, Jewish, widows, Women's Dreams

Josefina and Father Alonso, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g!

June 11, 2021 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

[A blast from the past! Josefina de Castillo, happily married to Manuel Castillo, rediscovers her passion for a redheaded priest. And worse yet, he’s now a Bishop!] Mexico, 1690 Estimada […]

Filed Under: advice, Books on Parade, love, Mexico, Sor Juana Tagged With: #josefinassin, #lovelorn #MadamMariana, #MadamMariana, #newbook #womensfiction #Latina, #SorJuana, #womensfiction, inquisition, Josefina's Sin, Madam Mariana, Sor Juana

How to not marry Igor, or, He got the estate, now he wants me!

May 20, 2021 by Claudia Long Leave a Comment

CP Lesley Song of the Sisters

[In which Madam Mariana travels back to Moscow, 1543, to help the lovely Russian noblewoman, Darya Petrovna, avoid her cousin Igor’s grasping ways: He got her daddy’s estate, and now […]

Filed Under: advice, artists, From Russia with love, Journeys, love, Russia, Uncategorized Tagged With: #indiewriter, #lovelorn #MadamMariana, #MadamMariana, #newbook #womensfiction #Latina, #womensfiction, advice, historical fiction, historical romance, Women's Dreams

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