After the ball is over, does the melody linger on? I can’t speak for all writers, but this writer is a puzzle, a bundle of contradictions. How can a book that I’ve worked on, groaned and moaned over, re-written, edited, worried about, fluffed up, lengthened, shortened, and at last declared finished, be so hard to […]
Jan 20, 2017
Mysteries and Inaugural Moments in History
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A moment in time for our country–a new President takes the reins. I love the pomp and circumstance, the traditions, following a procedure that reaches back in history to the beginnings of a new nation, a nation that has been the bastion of freedom for more than 200 years. I like listening to the inaugural addresses […]
Jan 8, 2017
The Carriage House Lives Again
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If you’ll remember, in Moonlight Can Be Murder, Ned McNeil’s carriage house burned to the ground. In its day, it had been quite a place and it figured pretty heavily in the mystery surrounding Granger Mansion. The burned-down building weighed on Ned’s mind, reminding her of recent unsavory happenings, so she had it re-built, true […]
Jan 2, 2017
Striding Boldly into 2017
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Happy January 2, 2017! There! That’s the first time I’ve written 2017 and it wasn’t hard at all. Now, if I can just keep doing that. I remember when the year 2,000 rolled around…for someone born in the sort-of-mid 1900s, that was hard to do. So, after that milestone, surely 2017 won’t be so difficult […]
Aug 14, 2016
Gleanings
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Gleanings are bits and pieces of grain left when a field has been harvested. This morning’s blog is really bits and pieces of this and that: some serious, some not. Anyway, these are my thoughts this morning. The flowers and potted evergreen from my friend Fran are now in my container garden. They have enlarged […]
