My Lady's Temptation
I was ten before I realized the cosmos played a terrible joke on me. I was in the wrong century! While everyone else studied computers and listened to rock music, I wrote a history assignment in Egyptian hieroglyphics and spent endless hours designing ball gowns for Marie Antoinette. I taught myself what every true lady must know: how to sew a fine seam (by hand), to embroider skillfully, and to play an instrument (piano, and nothing later than Beethoven, thank you). I did my best to fit in with the rest of modern society, running two property managements and inventing an electric lock, only to realize happiness meant historical research. Now, writing is my time machine historical research. Now, writing is my time machine and words re-create the vitality of an era where I feel at home. Not only do I experience the drama of their time, but I do so with indoor plumbing. Enjoy!Denise Hampton lives in Arizona with her husband and four cats, Wilhelmina, Watson, Wilfred and Warzuka Oni (a souvenir from her stay in Japan).