What is so scary about an old, silvery moon? Is it the eerie shadows it casts? Is it spooky because it’s so far away and yet regulates tides with its force? Is it true that frightening things happen when the moon is a great, silver, ghostly orb? That’s the question Ned McNeil asks as she […]

A Noise in the Middle of the Night
The noise jarred my eyes open. I gasped and sat up. The luminous dial on my bedside clock told me it was two in the morning. “Penny?” I muttered. “Did you knock something off a table?” But the little cat was not on the foot of my bed. As I listened, heart pounding, […]

Darcy, Flora, Ned, and Me
We’ve been together for a good while–Darcy Campbell and Flora Tucker and me. Ned McNeil I’ve known not as long but she has become a good friend too. All three women exist only in my imagination and in the pages of books but, in a way, they are real. Maybe they are real to you too. […]

Cozy Critters or Busy Bees?
The lively ladies who meet twice a month in my home are called The Cozy Critters–Jane’s name for us. But sometimes I think we should be called The Busy Bees because we are always buzzing here or there, doing this or that, and yet finding time to read, paint, and write. In other words, we […]



