Audra Jennings

Happy book birthday to Rachel Dylan! Her new Capital Intrigue series launches today with the release of End Game ! Introducing the Capital Intrigue series! Rachel's new series features three friends who all went to Georgetown Law School, but ended up taking different career paths—an FBI agent, a CIA analyst, and a State Department lawyer.  About End Game :  Each New Clue . . . Every Crime Scene . . . Brings Them Closer to Discovering the End Game When elite members of the military are murdered on the streets of Washington, DC, FBI Special Agent Bailey Ryan and NCIS Special Agent Marco Agostini must work together to bring the perpetrator to justice. Unfortunately, all evidence points to a Navy SEAL sniper whom Bailey refuses to believe is guilty.  When Bailey and Marco start to connect the dots between the victims, including a link to a powerful defense contractor, they wonder if there's a deeper cover-up at play. Then Bailey is targete...

Other than the really big holidays, I don't normally do a lot, in case you haven't noticed. However, one Memorial Day that will always stand out from the others was in 2006 when I was in Washington DC. The day itself, we spent at Mt. Vernon and a trip to the National Zoo that is worth it's own somewhat lame  blog entry. However, we arrived Saturday afternoon of the Memorial Day weekend and were able to witness the Rolling Thunder. I've never witnessed such a gathering of motorcycles. In honor of that weekend/trip, here are some of my favorite photos. Happy Memorial Day!  

Earlier this week, I sent a message to my friend Rakia asking if going to the original Starbucks on our trip to the Northwest would appeal to her. I said I thought it would be fun. Her response was, "I wouldn't say fun...if it happens, it happens, but I wouldn't want to go out of my way..." OK, so in all honesty, maybe it wouldn't be so much fun. Maybe it's one of those places I would go to say I've been. I've been to a lot of those kind of places on past vacations. Maybe I just don't know what a fun vacation is. Let me share some of the things I have done over the past few years on vacation, besides the whole head lice eradication last year. (I can assure you, that was not a fun vacation.) We'll make this part one of a series. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since 2006 (the farthest back that I have digital pictures on my computer, I've been to Branson three times. And two of those times I went to the Butterfly Palace. Mom ...