Have you ever had an alligator pear cocktail?  I’ve not only had one, but I’ve perfected the recipe. 

 

I’m an author, explorer of local history, culinary inventor, theater junkie, Anglophile, seeker of social justice, plotting to save the world or at least a piece of it.

 

I grew up in a small Central Massachusetts town forgotten by time and buried under forest after the railroad was destroyed by a hurricane.  I have worked in museums all over New England, allowing me to meet people from around the world and granting me access to stories of knights and armor, New England Bloomsbury and its dinner parties and intrigues, as well as many interesting personalities who have lived and thrived in my home state.

 

I spend a great many hours in the theater – acting, directing, producing, and helping to maintain the spaces where we sing and recite our verses.  Shakespeare is my great love, but I refuse to revere it.  Mostly though, I keep going back to meet fellow artists with whom I will get together once a month for dinner and conversation about our latest creative endeavors.

 

All of these experiences are a way of storytelling – whether it is giving a tour or putting on a costume.  And considering my love of Shakespeare as well as the vast number of books that seem to reproduce on my shelves when I’m not looking, it is rather perfect that I should like to write as well.

 

Writing is how I see the world, how I attempt to understand it. I write a blog about all sorts of subjects.  I published my first novel An Ever Fixed Mark in 2011.  Currently I am working on a time travel series to be published in December 2015. I hope you visit me  here or on social media to get the updates.

 

And if you want to know the story of the alligator pear cocktail, you can find it out here:

http://www.jessiebolson.com/#!Alligator-Pear-Cocktail/cr96/1