The Lady in the Lamplight

Dear children, after some delay I take my pen in hand in answer to your most welcome letter which I received and should have bin answered sooner but there is much of my time that it is almost all I can do to attend to my every day affairs so I hope you will excuse […]

Words and Emotions

I just got to thinking about words. We use them every day. Written or spoken, we can’t get along without them. I’m puzzled and saddened by the fact that, with all the beautiful words to choose from, why do some use ugly, degrading, base words? Is it to get a reaction? To show that we’re […]

March

March birthday people, your flower is the lovely daffodil, one of the first flowers to pop up after winter, reminding us of sunnier, warmer days ahead. Aquamarine and bloodstone are your two birth stones. So, you are beautifully attired for your special month. A neat fact: The origin of birth stones takes back to the […]

March

Suppose That It Happened…

Writing a mystery is doing a lot of just supposin’. Come with me a moment into the mysterious realms of the fourth Ned McNeil mystery. Just suppose that it was part of Ned’s job to take a picture of an old farmhouse for her boss, Daisy. But, suppose that when Ned goes inside the dark […]

Penelope Pennybroke

This is a strange tale of someone we’ll call Penelope Pennybroke. You may believe it or not, as you choose. Penelope, quiet, gray-haired woman of a certain number of years, was on her daily walk, minding her own business, keeping an eye out. She always did this–kept an eye out. One time she found a […]