God’s World by Edna St. Vincent Millay O WORLD, I cannot hold thee close enough! Thy winds, thy wide grey skies! Thy mists that roll and rise! Did you ever feel like that–just an overflowing joy and gladness in the world as God made it? And the people God put into the world, the family […]
Nov 26, 2014
A Cause for Jubilation!
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What could possibly be better than getting that first box of my Darcy and Flora cozies? Getting the second box of Darcy and Flora cozies! That second box came yesterday and now I should have plenty for the book signing Saturday at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville, the Thompson House Victorian Christmas in Tahlequah, and Fran’s […]
Nov 25, 2014
In My Mind’s Eye
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Closing my eyes, I’m there–years and miles disappear and once again I am at that home of my childhood. It is fall, just as it is now. The trees, surrounding the yard and barn and chicken house are mostly oaks. They’ve dropped many of their leaves. Those left on the trees are dry and brown. […]
Nov 24, 2014
VPs and Dissecting a Cozy
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My Sunday School group is made up of some of the neatest people you would ever want to be around. Don’t let it be said that we VPs are old or dull or staid. No indeed! We want to know what, who, why, how. We are as curious as cats. We may look on life with […]
Nov 23, 2014
A Cozy Kind of Day
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“Yes, she joined me for supper and then she went right back to the living room and that book,” he said, indicating my first cozy, The Cemetery Club. “I finished it last night,” she told me. “I couldn’t put it down. I’ve got to have the other two books.” This is all music to a writer’s […]
Nov 22, 2014
A Misty, Moisty Morning
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A quiet, cloudy autumn morning. The maple leaves are a faded orange; most of them are on the ground. The crepe myrtle’s branches are nearly bare. Trees, gray sky, and damp ground seem slow to wake up and get started with the day. So am I. Maybe a second cup of Folgers will help. Even the water […]
