Does weather affect your moods or do you go sailing through the seasons undaunted by snow, rain, or cold? Do you prefer balmy temperatures year round and escape to sunny places when possible? Or, does cold weather give you energy and pep and you love to see a bountiful snowfall? Wind blows the vines outside […]
Aug 27, 2025
Dragonflies
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To me, dragonflies are a sign of summer ending. Years ago, when I lived at Manos Meadows, I would look out at the pasture and see the lovely purple thistles in bloom, and dragonflies hovering around. This always happened in August and it meant the end of summer and the beginning of another school year. […]
Aug 26, 2025
Change
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Changes. Life is a series of changes. Young people adapt to those changes a lot more easily than we who are older. Here in Arkansas, change is all around me as green pastures and trees are bulldozed in favor of houses, apartments, or shopping centers. I admit I don’t happily adjust to changes like […]
May 24, 2022
Or, Doesn’t It Matter?
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I’m simultaneously doing two things: re-reading one of my favorite mysteries by Mary Roberts Rinehart and starting to write a new cozy mystery, new protagonists this time. Not Ned and not Darcy and Flora. Maybe it’s because I’m stuck in an earlier time zone, although I actually wasn’t born at the time Miss Rinehart wrote […]
Mar 5, 2022
Changing Times
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Sometimes change happens suddenly. Sometimes, it’s gradual, but whichever it is, it is a mystery. For the Ukrainian people, change came swiftly, a change that affects the rest of the world. Looking back at history, we can see how huge events–wars, famines, droughts, new inventions, have changed life for many. Within our families, life is […]
