To Look Back Or Not

Yesterday as I was thinking about writing this blog, I remembered other writing I’ve done through the years. At one time, I wrote a column for my hometown newspaper, The Tahlequah Daily Press. I called the column Looking Back. In it, I told stories of my mother’s childhood as she had told them to me. I also […]

Painting a Word Picture

The world is full of real-life mysteries; things that we can’t explain. That’s OK with me. I think there should be some things left to the imagination. For example, those ghost lights I mentioned the other day. Now, there are lots of theories  but do they really explain them? And is there any rational reason […]

When a Mystery is a Mystery

How many of us remember when we were children, telling scary stories at night or listening to a spooky tale that some one else told? It gave us a satisfying case of the shivers. Satisfying only because we knew we were safe but our imaginations went on wild tangents of  “what if”? I think that […]

Inviting Input

In the third Darcy/Flora book, in progress, Darcy and Flora set about solving a mystery which has its roots in the past–in 1918, to be exact. Best Left Buried is the title and it aptly describes what several people keep telling Darcy. It’s best not to dig too deeply into the mystery behind the box they dug […]