“Yes, she joined me for supper and then she went right back to the living room and that book,” he said, indicating my first cozy, The Cemetery Club. “I finished it last night,” she told me. “I couldn’t put it down. I’ve got to have the other two books.” This is all music to a writer’s […]
Nov 22, 2014
A Misty, Moisty Morning
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A quiet, cloudy autumn morning. The maple leaves are a faded orange; most of them are on the ground. The crepe myrtle’s branches are nearly bare. Trees, gray sky, and damp ground seem slow to wake up and get started with the day. So am I. Maybe a second cup of Folgers will help. Even the water […]
Nov 21, 2014
The Toils of Tertius
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Writers have always had an important place in the grand scheme of things. Yesterday morning while reading the concluding chapter of the Book of Romans, I noted that it was written, under Paul’s dictation and by God’s direction by a transcriber named Tertius. He was an early Christian martyr so this means that he was a believer who […]
Nov 20, 2014
Best Left Buried
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A reminder that the trivia contest closes tomorrow. If you need me to re-print the questions, let me know. An excerpt this morning from Best Left Buried. Grant’s truck roared to a stop beside my Escape. I ran to him and grabbed his arm. “She’s gone, Grant. I’ve looked and looked. Something has happened to […]
Nov 19, 2014
November Days
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November. A month with different meanings for different people. For us here in NWArkansas, it is the month of the first snow and frozen bird baths. I wanted to show you how my water fountain in the container garden has iced a bit. Not completely, though, because the water is running. I’ll keep it running as […]
Nov 18, 2014
Random Thoughts
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Sometimes unrelated thoughts which bear no resemblance to each other come knocking at my mind’s door. Some are borne out of curiosity and some are just casual observations. Some wander in uninvited. Yesterday was that kind of day: random thoughts. So, I jotted a few of them down here in no particular order. None is breath-taking and probably if […]
