Sandra Bashaw

Babette was a waitress at The Headquarters, a big bar in Albuquerque, NM where I played regularly with a western swing band The Last Mile...

Dear Dogie, Now that I'm writing my third email to you, I thought I might use a less formal name to address you, since we're getting to...

To Doge: You've asked for yet another list of five things I did last week and while I have serious doubts that any of you Dogers will...

After a million Federal workers were told to email a report describing the work they did in the last week in order to justify their jobs...

another day another morning, another night one heart trying to open up another heart knocking at the door a thousand lighted candles...

Dictionaries and encyclopedias provide two basic definitions of the word, magic.   One: According to Britannica,  the colloquial...

It was a solitary Christmas for me. I had split up with my husband, and I was living in a furnished apartment in Albuquerque, NM in 1978....

In January of 2008, a half-grown tuxedo cat started hanging around our house. He was friendly. For a week or so we'd talk to him and give him some pets as we went in and out of our house. We suspected he was sleeping under our front porch. After some days I figured the cat was hungry; all we had in the house was dog food/kibble so I put some out for him, thinking that he'd soon find his way home. Most days he'd come around to the back of the house and peer into the basement w

Last night I watched a bit of news coverage of the celebration of the restoration of the Notre Dame Cathedral de Paris. I'm not Catholic,...

I felt like yesterday's post was just too short, so I decided to post the lyric to my most recent song. You can hear it on my website...

I took ballet lessons when I was four years old. My mom remembered that I easily memorized the sequences. She also remembered that during...

Betrayal: “the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict...

The girl lived in a sweet little house near the end of a cul-de-sac in a peaceful neighborhood full of old growth trees. She had filled...

I am grateful for a lot of things. I have a wonderful husband, a lovely daughter, a fab grandchild. We live in a little house full of art...

Dear Friends, I'm having a hard time writing to you today. Having a hard time time deciding what to say and I don't know why. OK, I've...

Samhain (or, Halloween or El Dia de los Muertos) approaches, and I'm thinking about spirits and ghosts. And while there are the spirits...

I WROTE A NOVEL??? Hello Friends. As mentioned before, I've been a musician all my life, and a songwriter. My love of the...

Etymology: Middle English enspire, from Old French inspirer, from Latin inspirare ‘breathe or blow into’ from in- ‘into’ + spirare...

For most of my life I've been, well . . . reserved. An introvert, really. But as I've reached a certain age, I feel it's time to write...