Last night, the sky was clear and the temperature took a plunge downward. What does a cozy mystery writer or a cozy mystery reader do on a night like this? Read, of course, or write! In this slice of Moonlight Can Be Murder, Ned takes a wild, icy ride which nearly ends in disaster. A […]
Jan 10, 2016
Mocha Coffee and Flying Fingers
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The mercury shivers at fifteen degrees this morning. Yesterday morning I was so excited! Snow was falling in NW Arkansas. It was beautiful. However, it did not last; the cold did. The heater blower on my furnace went out a few days ago and I am very thankful that a few hours later, it was […]
Jan 9, 2016
A Shadow in the Night
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The weather is wet, cold, and forecast to get snowy and colder. It is, of course, perfect weather to go to Levi, Oklahoma and see what Darcy and Flora are doing in their current mystery, Grave Heritage. As usual, Darcy is setting out to find a bad guy but this time, she goes alone, in the dead of […]
Jan 8, 2016
Beside the Still Waters
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Psalm 23 is one of the most-quoted, most-memorized passages in the Bible. It was my mother’s favorite. I think one reason for that was no matter what turbulence swirled around her, she could go to those words and feel comforted. When she passed away, one of her books which became my book was A Shepherd […]
Jan 7, 2016
Is the Sky Really Falling?
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My deck is wet this morning. In the glow of the porch light, I’d say it is rain, but who knows? The Farmer’s Almanac listed some things that fall from the sky and I was amazed! Sleet, hail, rain, snow, graupel. Wait! Graupel? I’m not sure why the Almanac didn’t list oobleck because as we […]
Jan 6, 2016
How Many Wise Men?
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Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem — (Matthew 2:1). Today is the day Christians celebrate the Epiphany, when wise men from the east bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, came to find and worship […]
