Look and Listen

Biography

This is a brief version of Ginnie's life and work, leaving out the international intrigue, sexcapades, and other madcap flings. It’s short, but damn dull. She is a published author; her first novel, "Ida Mae Tutweiler and the Traveling Tea Party" is currently under consideration in Hollywood, where it languishes (probably forgotten) on some obscure producer’s desk. In addition, she has a delightful, hilarious and only slightly tacky e-cookbook, titled "The Seductive Chef", available on line at www.theseductivechef.com. Her newest book is titled "Notes From A Chameleon, Sort of A Memoir". A finally finished project that she has been living, writing and illustrating for the past 35 years. She is even more amazed to find that she is a poet. Really! Ginnie is the insufferably proud mother of five reasonably adult children and seven exquisite grandchildren. In a newspaper story she would be referred to as elderly, but don't you believe it, she isn't interested in growing up.

Inspiration

I honestly don't know what inspired me to write those first few lines...Sunday at 2 pm, Sept 12, 1972...the yellow legal tablet was there in front of me, so I picked up the pen beside it and began a new life although I certainly didn't know it at the time. Writing has saved, changed and made my life more joyous than I could ever have imagined. Learning to use the computer sealed the deal. Cut and paste was a breakthrough discovery, without it I would never have gotten where I am today. Well, that and spell check. Writing is a gift and when those words spill out on the screen in front of me, and I sit in surprise and wonder "where in the world did THAT come from?" All I can say is lucky, lucky me!