Labor Day’s Strange Compulsion

Each Labor Day, I mop my floors. Now, that sounds strange, doesn’t it, as if I mop my floors only once a year? Actually, I mop throughout the year. I don’t know how or when my habit of mopping on the first Monday in September began. It was many years ago. That’s my way of […]

Every Jot and Tittle

You’ve seen the cliche: the writer staring out the window appearing to be idle while she’s actually thinking of the next part of her story. I sympathize with that writer. It could be me! I’m on the re-write of the third Darcy/Flora mystery and re-writes and critiques are pain-staking necessities. The Cozy Critiquers are giving […]

Incurably Romantic

Incurably Romantic

And, to the title I might add that I’m not looking for an antidote. But before you jump to any conclusions, let me say that I probably don’t define romantic as any dictionary or thesaurus does; well, maybe I would agree that I’m a bit fanciful because I don’t always look at life the way it […]

The Mystique of the Critique

The Mystique of the Critique

The title of today’s blog is misleading but it does rhyme! There is no mystery about the Cozy Critiques. The official definition of a critique is an opinion or analysis or observation. A cozy critique (although I can’t find it listed in a dictionary) is a united effort of friends helping each other become better […]

The Sinister, Swarming Pest

Mosquitoes I wonder how they got on board, This swarming, biting, pesky hoarde? Didn’t Noah see them coming Or hear their loud, annoying humming? They survived a world that flooded To torment all who are warm-blooded. –Blanche I don’t think I’ve ever seen mosquitoes as bad as they are this summer. The city sprays but […]

Beginnings

Beginnings

Each morning I awake with the dawn (before the dawn actually), greeting the morning before the rooster crows (the only rooster I hear nowadays is on TV) and begin the day filled with hope in my heart,  with goals to reach and things to do! At night, I like to look back at what I’ve […]