This morning, I have given full rein to my imagination. Please suspend reality with me and travel to Levi, Oklahoma, during a cold, snowy winter. Darcy Campbell, the lead character in Barbara’s and my mother/daughter sleuths trilogy, is going to introduce you to a few of the characters you will meet in her latest cozy […]
Weaving Words Together
Today some friends will come over to visit, munch on cookies, drink tea and coffee and listen thoughtfully to words woven together to create what we hope is a pleasing pattern. Jane writes fiction for children and also poetry. Nancy writes inspirational stories based on experience, and I am the one of the mysterious mind. […]

Rainy Day Ramble
Rain! I woke to the sound of it, pouring off the eaves. Lightning flashed, thunder rolled across the heavens and I decided, as my dad used to say, it was “gettin’ up time”. So here I am, up before the birds. Are the other people on my street still sleeping? Probably so. And what about […]

Be It Stormy or Fair Weather
Tomorrow and Thursday I will sponsor a free e-book giveaway for Grave Shift on Amazon. The price should be listed as “free”. I hope you’ll order one for your Kindle even though you may have a paperback copy already. If you would like to write a review after you read the book, I’d appreciate it […]
Decisions, Decisions
When I write a mystery, my protagonists are faced with making choices. Of course, in real life we have to make decisions too. Sometimes, however, I procrastinate, hoping that everything will work out all right and I won’t really have to decide because, good heavens! what if I should be wrong? Do you ever do […]

