Come with me to another place this morning. You may have been there or you may not. It’s a small town, a busy, bustling town, but it is an old town and, as with all old towns, it has its secrets. Many aged houses populate the town and each has a story to tell. Ned O’Neil’s […]
Oct 27, 2016
Damp and Daring But Never Difficult
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Yesterday was a damp sort of day but our daring critiquers braved the showers for a cozy critique replete with coffee, brownies, chocolate-covered mints and much fun and laughter. Sometimes our cozy critiques erupt in passionate opinions and moments of looking back at the way we were taught instead of using the Oxford comma. We wax exuberant […]
Oct 26, 2016
Spinning Dreams Out of Nothing At All
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We all have a dream–something that puts a spring in our steps and a gleam in our eyes. Dreams are those wonderful things as filmy as spiders’ webs, as substantial as moonbeams, somewhere ahead of us, calling to us to follow, to pursue, to hope, to reach. We can spin dreams of the straw of […]
Oct 25, 2016
How’d I Get Here So Fast?
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Yesterday, I read about the death of Bobby Vee. I remember his song, “Take Good Care of My Baby.” In fact, it is going through my head word for word, note for note right now. It must be one of those things that marks me as a Senior Citizen but wait! How’d I get here […]
Oct 24, 2016
The Letter
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Dear Flora Tucker, I read about you and your daughter solving the mystery of the murders in Levi after the police were unable to make any progress. I also have a mystery–one that breaks my heart–and I hope you will consider helping me find a way out of the pain that has engulfed me for […]
Oct 23, 2016
The Comfort of Words
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My mother has been gone for more than twenty years; yet, I miss her every day, even now. When the grief of her passing was new and I felt wounded and sore, I sought and found comfort in words: the words of friends, words in the Bible and other books. I found relief from pain in […]
