Laurie (L.A. Chandlar) lives and writes in New York City. Her love affair with the city is clearly evident in her blogs and is personified in her recently completed manuscript, The Silver Gun. The nov
I had been researching the past for years, and now I was on a hunt for literary
inspiration. I’d done the best I could with books and biographies, musty copies
of original
> “Peace begins with a smile.” -Mother Teresa
> “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” -Mark Twain
It seems that humanity has always been enamored with the smile. It is the
Alice irritates me. I should amend that; Disney’s Alice irritates me. Tim
Burton’s Alice is much more provocative. But in the first version that I
witnessed as a child, even at