Marsha Temlock

Thinking about what hand to play is serious business. My students at the Norwalk Library where I volunteer to teach are a delight. In only four one-hour workshops they are ready to play on their own although the library is now offering Open Play time. Find out more and join up.

Excited to share my new mah jongg novel with readers. Publication is in October.

Light lingers. Plans loosen. We start saying yes to things again—to travel, to possibility, to books that keep us up late because just one more chapter feels essential…

I am teaching an exuberant group of mah jongg devotees …

we travel solo …

  I attended the Westport author book fair.  Lovely day for a book fair, May 3rd. 

I am sorry to say that every once in a while you have a bad experience playing mah jongg because you wind up playing with a disgruntled or bossy player. Today I had that happen to me. The woman I was playing with immediately took issue when I explained that I had to leave…

Marlene Corby took down two cut-glass crystal bowls she and Al had gotten forty years ago as a wedding gift and filled them with assorted nuts and mints. She’d baked lemon squares that morning and arranged them diagonally on a Blue Willow cake plate crazed like a spider’s web.