Each morning when I get out of bed, I feel like celebrating! It’s great to be alive, to have a new day before me, to visit with family and friends, to be able to write again! Wonderful. And, I’m enjoying my first cup of Folgers. Some of my instructions from the hospital said to beware […]
Aug 8, 2015
Let’s Have Another Cup of Cozy
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Remember this old jingle? “Let’s have another cup of coffee. Oh, let’s have a cup of Nescafe.” That long ago ad was meant to put people in the mood for a chat, a warm, easy beginning to a new day or a friendship. That’s the sort of feeling I hope my cozy mysteries evoke. Cozies are […]
Aug 7, 2015
Reflections
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When one lies in a hard, unyielding hospital bed, one has time for reflection. Anyway, I did. I reflected on how nice home is and how much I liked the comfortable, familiar routine of my days at home. (And how much I missed my own bed.) I also had time to read. We’ve talked several […]
Aug 6, 2015
Hospital Chronicle
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I’ve never known a lot about hospitals. I know a little more now than I did a week ago. Friday night I went to the emergency room because my heart was doing weird and unusual things. The doctor called it atrial fibrillation or A-Fib. What is A-Fib? It’s where the top part of the heart […]
Aug 5, 2015
Heart Thinking
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“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7 I’ve been doing some heart thinking lately, about what’s really important and what’s only trappings. Two people can look at the same occurrence and not feel at all the same. An illness to one can be the end of all hopes and dreams […]
Jul 31, 2015
Dreaming
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It’s the perfect place. The house sits on a grassy knoll with a backdrop of low mountains. Before it is the Atlantic Ocean, restless, with foam-crested waves. There’s a guest house and a barn for horses out back. It’s a place where anything is possible, where dreams are mine for the taking. The only thing […]
