By the Fright of the Silvery Moon

By the Fright of the Silvery Moon

Here’s a peek at my current work in progress. If you have questions or suggestions or any comment about it, please put them in the comment section. I would welcome them. Fright is a lot of fun to write. The first book in the Moonlight series takes place in December. This second book is ten […]

Confessions Over Coffee with Blanche

Confessions Over Coffee with Blanche

https://www.amazon.com/Blanche-Day-Manos/e/B0090018EI/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 They used to be on shelves in groceries stores: True Story, True Romance, etc., etc. I don’t see them there any more. Are confession magazines (we called them Confessions) now a thing of the past, folded for lack of readership? When I was a pre-teen and a young teenager, those magazines were taboo. My mother would […]

Words Are Weapons Too

Words Are Weapons Too

Was it really fifty-three years ago? How strange it seems to look back at the assassination of John F. Kennedy and realize it was so long ago. For those of us old enough to remember, we know where we were and what we were doing when we heard the unbelievable words that the President of […]

Upside-Down Sort of Day

Upside-Down Sort of Day

This day is starting upside-down, temperature-wise. But, that’s all right. Yesterday, the wind blew like a storm all day. Warm temperatures, cloudless sky with gales. I’m glad I took a picture of my beautiful golden maple because this morning a lot of those leaves are on the ground and the wind is still gusting. The temperature is […]

The Heavens Declare

The Heavens Declare

  Last night’s super moon lit the evening sky. Moonlight has a special, serene effect. People on the earth may be engaged in all sorts of turmoil: wars, crime, anger, dissensions; an enormous earthquake and tsunami that hit New Zealand, droughts here, floods there, yet the moon, beautiful and majestic, shines above it all. I […]

That Elusive Fragrance of Autumn

That Elusive Fragrance of Autumn

Have you noticed a new scent in the air, the smell of damp leaves, damp earth, nippy mornings and something else that can’t be defined? I call it the mysterious fragrance of autumn. November sweeps summer away and sets up residence with an invigorating sense of purpose, If you stayed up late last night watching election […]