by Dorrie Parsons | May 4, 2024 | Characters
I’ve mentioned that Hazel was two feet shorter than Charlie, but it’s hard to get your head around what that looked like unless you see a picture. Unfortunately, Charlie apparently decided he wouldn’t stand still long enough to take one when they were first married....
by Dorrie Parsons | Apr 20, 2024 | Characters
Hazel was a well-practiced and skilled musician. In her rather short but illustrious career, she managed to do things that most women of the age could not and dared not do. She worked under her own name while married, lived independently, and fought fiercely for...
by Dorrie Parsons | Apr 10, 2024 | Characters
This Steinway isn’t the first piano Hazel ever played, nor is it the last. In truth, she didn’t play this instrument at all. But when I saw it on stage during a recital a few days ago and heard the remarkably resonant sounds of composers ranging from Beethoven,...
by Dorrie Parsons | Mar 19, 2024 | Characters
Now that the paperback and Kindle editions of Becoming Hazel have been released on Amazon, I thought it was the perfect time to share a bit of background information about Hazel and about the series, “Inherited Treasures”.Hazel is based on a real person –...
