This is an un comfortable post because it goes against the popular narrative, the spin that is accepted by busy people, too concerned with real, up to the minute problems to be worried about something that represents a person and an event more than 150 years ago. I could just keep my opinions to myself […]
Sep 8, 2021
What Would You Do?
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Two hours later, we were dirty, tired, and discouraged. “I’m willing to call it a day,” I said, flopping down on the floor beside Ulysses who was lying down by the door. “Same here,” Pat said. “I need a bath.” Jackie looked around at the ruins of the living room. “There’s too much […]
Sep 6, 2021
Laboring Away
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A lovely Labor Day dawns in Arkansas. Wherever you are, I hope your day is lovely too. As we rest from our work, let’s be thankful for jobs, for the good health to do them, for families, for freedom, for so many things. You have your own personal list as I have mine. Each Labor […]
Sep 4, 2021
The Clock Is Ticking
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The clock is ticking on the four-day countdown deal of the four DARCY AND FLORA COZY MYSTERIES at Amazon. This is Day 1, the only day all four books will be $4.99. Price will increase one dollar for each of the four days. Darcy and Flora are the intrepid mother/daughter sleuths who get stuck in […]
Sep 3, 2021
What a Good Deal!
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What a good deal! Starting tomorrow, my publisher and Amazon will embark on a four-day countdown sale for the four Darcy and Flora books. It’s called a boxed set and all four books in the set are marketed together. The price will be only fifty per cent of the original for the first day. Aren’t […]
Sep 2, 2021
A Listening Ear and Good Advice
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Clues: a partial message on a scrap of wallpaper, a ghostly figure on the stairs, a book of curious poems, a murderer who had done a disappearing act. Sleep was hard to come by that night. My dreams were riddled with ghosts and scraps of paper which kept floating just beyond my grasp. When a […]
