I’m delighted to welcome Regency Romance Author and member of the Bluestocking Belles CAROLINE WARFIELD to Rakes and Rascals today for an exclusive interview.
This is a great opportunity, but, goodness, I am nervous. You ask wonderful questions. I’m going to have to dig deep for answers. When someone makes me think about life in new ways, it is always a gift, though. Thank you.
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R&R:
Could you tell us where you were born and what it was like growing up there?
Caroline:
I was born in Detroit, Michigan, but by the time I was two years old we moved to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, the first of many transfers. My father reenlisted in the army after WWII; he served in the Korean War as well. My folks were both born and raised in Detroit, and my grandparents lived there, but by the time I was six I had lived in the Midwest, New England, and the Deep South in the United States. What remains of Detroit in me is a love of the Great Lakes, a love of extended family, and a fairly urban, blue-collar, view of the world.
When I was just shy of six, my mother and I joined my father in Germany. It was 1953 and we sailed on a big grey troop ship with furnishings of metal all bolted to the floor. Crossing the North Atlantic in a stormy February was an adventure. I learned about bulkhead doors when we reached the English Channel, and they closed them due to lingering fears of mines left from the war. To me as a child it just meant that to get to the playroom I had to go all the way up to the top deck and then back down again.
Crossing the North Atlantic
World traveller
R&R:
How would you describe yourself – temperamental or easy-going?
Caroline:
I can be quite intense, so I wouldn’t say easy-going. Driven might be a better word. Once I set a goal I can be tenacious in pursuing it. I tend to charge forward once I know what I want, which can be hard on people around me.
R&R:
When it comes to food do you like sweet or savoury or both?
Caroline:
Both! Faced with a choice of a cheese plate or a hot fudge sundae, I will gravitate to the hot fudge. That is, I would gravitate to ice-cream unless there was red wine on offer. In that case, I would choose the cheese plate and hope for a little dark chocolate.
R&R:
What is your most treasured possession?
Caroline:
Aside from photos of my children, I have two. The first is a painting of myself that my parents had done when we lived in Germany. It always had pride of place in my mother’s house, and it survived a nasty house fire. When the firemen came and asked Mom what she particularly wanted saved, she asked them to rescue the painting. Now it is in my dining room.
The Painting
The other is my mother’s locket. My father gave it to her the first Christmas he knew her when there were only eighteen. It has the unromantic inscription, “To Bern From Jim.” Those words are amusing because my mother, whose name was Bernadette, had been called Barney by her brothers. One suspects she was trying to escape that when she met my father, but it caught up with her eventually, and Barney she remained. It features a cameo and mother of pearl. I wore it at my wedding and my daughter wore it at hers.
R&R:
If you were able to afford a second home anywhere in the world where would you choose and why?
Caroline:
My current fantasy revolves around a house in Cape May, one of the Victorian Painted Ladies in walking distance of the shore, yet close enough to the Philadelphia area for my grandson to visit. However, I’ve never given up on the idea of an apartment in Paris. Tuscany has some appeal as well.
R&R:
Finally, what has been your most embarrassing moment?
Caroline:
Oh, so many choices! I think I have to say it involved getting stopped for speeding. I crossed from West Virginia into Maryland and failed to take notice of the change in speed limit until after the trooper pulled me over. He leaned in, sized up my passengers and said, “Lady, why would you pass a state trooper speeding?” At that point the two teenage boys I was transporting to a soccer tournament were convulsed in laughter. He smirked at me and said, “I think I’ll let you off with a warning. You’ll suffer enough.”
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Thank you for taking time out to be here today and sharing these interesting facts about yourself, Caroline.
Goodness! You ask some tough questions. Thank you for letting me take part and for giving me a chance to sort through all those embarrassing moments.
If you would like to find out more about Caroline and her books, here are the links:
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