The Twelve Days of Christmas. With my family’s help, I added words that might be appropriate for a writer of cozy mysteries. Thanks, Matt, Dawn, Sara, Nathan! A Cozy Mystery Writer’s Sizzling Twelve Days of Christmas On the first day of Christmas, Santa brought to me: a creative cozy mystery. On the second day of Christmas, […]
Dec 27, 2025
Wicked Weather
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Arkansas weather, much like Oklahoma’s weather, is deceptive. It’s hard to believe that tomorrow the temperature will climb to seventy-two, then drop fifty degrees to a bone-chilling twenty-two Sunday night. Weather is changeable; you can’t count on it remaining one way or the other for very long. Do you leave Christmas decorations up past December […]
Dec 26, 2025
The Day After Christmas
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And now, mail resumes, banks re-open, people go back to work, and I’m grateful for another wonderful Christmas with my family. In many countries, this is Boxing Day, and I don’t mean it’s a time when we put on gloves and solve all our differences with combat. The day after Christmas is a day when […]
Dec 25, 2025
Christmas Day
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“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given” (Isaiah 9:6). Merry Christmas!
Dec 23, 2025
Did the Innkeeper Ever Know?
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The Bible says simply, “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7). I like to imagine the principal people involved in how the Lord Jesus came to be born in a stable, […]
Dec 22, 2025
The Old Man’s Hat
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It’s interesting that so many songs and poems give us a peek at the lives and practices of previous generations. The old English Christmas song, “Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat; please to put a penny in the old man’s hat” is one such 17th century song. It encourages people to be generous […]
