by Lauren Palmer | May 13, 2019 | Books
From the desk of Deanne Paul, Ambassador for FOREVER® A glance at the May calendar, its squares filled with end of year activities and events, seems to taunt. Will summer ever arrive? In this most notoriously busy month, it’s normal to long for the hectic school year...
by Lauren Palmer | May 7, 2018 | Books, McKinney Muse, McKinney Non Profit Organization
As I ponder the upcoming weekend and the annual celebration of mothers, I can’t help but think of all the women in the world, and what precisely this day brings and means for them. A few of us share the honor with our own moms. Like they once did, we open hand-made...
by Lauren Palmer | Feb 28, 2018 | Books
Until I read The Apple Orchard, the story of twenty-something Tess Delaney, I didn’t realize there were real-life treasure hunters for hire. Employed by a auction house in San Francisco, Tess works as a Provenance Specialist to research and recover lost objects...
by Lauren Palmer | Feb 16, 2018 | Books, McKinney Muse
How often are books published that have the potential to actually change the lives of the people who read them? Of some 1 million books that launch in this country each year, how many publishers finish reading a manuscript, slap the back cover closed with excited...
by Lauren Palmer | Feb 27, 2015 | Books, Pages
You see, nothing is more immediate, more complete than the sense of smell. In an instant, it has the power to transport you. Your olfactory sense connects not to the memory itself, but to the emotion you felt when that memory was made. To recreate a scent memory is...
