I got out of my car. The place looked deserted but as I approached the nearer house, a tall, bony dog appeared around the corner. It growled. I stopped. The animal didn’t look in the least friendly. It bared its teeth, snarled and started toward me. Everything I had ever read about unfriendly dogs […]
Jun 10, 2022
Ben and the Thunderstorm
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Ben Franklin would have had a good chance to test his theory of electricity this morning. It was on June 10, 1752, when he experimented with electricity and lightning by flying a kite during a thunderstorm. His aim was to collect an ambient charge of electricity in a leyden jar. Mr. Franklin was curious about […]
Jan 12, 2022
Nancy and Me
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As a youngster, I learned many things from Nancy Drew that were not written on the pages of her books. I learned that Nancy was the kind of girl I would like to be. Nancy was a magnet who attracted mysteries. To anyone else, clocks were clocks, staircases were just what they seemed; but, not […]
Dec 4, 2020
Being Nosy
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Life has more real mysteries than a writer could ever dream up. Sometimes, there seems to be no answer, and the mystery itself is an appetizer leaving me longing for the solution.One hundred forty-five years have passed since the mystery of a ship named the Mary Celeste. No, she didn’t disappear, but everyone on board […]
Nov 16, 2020
Turn Over That Rock
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It just looks like a plain, ordinary rock. But, wait! Turn it over and you may find it was the front door to about a million tiny, scurrying ants and their underground kingdom. A book just looks like a book, sitting on the shelf with others of its kind. Open it and see: instantly, you […]
Jun 25, 2019
The Murky Mind of a Mystery Writer
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I knew a long time ago that I was a little different, but I kept it a secret. I had a big, heaping helping of curiosity. I wanted to know things. I wanted to dig past the surface and find out what lay underneath. Why did things happen as they did? For a long time, […]
