I enjoy being able to speak to far-flung family or friends through the telephone or Skype or email, but sometimes I miss actual letters I can hold in my hands. It’s rare for me to get a personal letter in the old, metal mailbox in front of my house but a few years ago, it […]
Dear Me, Santa
Mrs. Claus: Are you feeling better, Dear? How about a nice, hot cup of coffee? Santa (throwing back the quilts and rolling out of bed): Just what I need. The trip was hard this year. Mrs. Claus: Did the reindeer behave? Was the sleigh over-loaded? Did you face a head-wind? Santa: Yes, no, and no. […]

Or, Doesn’t It Matter?
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 […]
