What do you do when pressures mount and you can’t Get Away From It All? Television news is depressing and scary, money pressures, health worries; sometimes it all gets to be a bit much and you want to run away somewhere but, for one reason or another, you can’t? You need a vacation! When you can’t […]
Jun 21, 2016
How Is Your Eye?
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Our Sunday School lesson was on a Bible passage that many of us have read again and again. The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if […]
Jun 18, 2016
A New Old Gift
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Although this is June, yesterday seemed like Christmas. My friend Fran sent a box of old books and piano music by way of mutual friends Susan and Rodney. I haven’t had a chance to delve deeply into the novels and recipe books yet, but I see dates like 1913 and 1940. One is a cookery […]
Jun 17, 2016
Star-Spangled Cat
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As you know, I sometimes like to write children’s stories as well as cozy mysteries. Flag Day was June 14 so that put me in mind of this story about a cat, a ship, and a famous lawyer. To me, our American history is so wonderful that I want to pass it along to future […]
Jun 16, 2016
Tea for Two
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“So, what do you think?” I asked Helen. “Should I explain more fully about the red rose against the head stone?” We were discussing the edit of Grave Heritage and I had a few questions about making my meaning clearer concerning Darcy and Flora and their discovery toward the end of the book. Sometimes an […]
Jun 15, 2016
Worse Than Termites
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I’ve known for quite some time that squirrels are accomplished acrobats. They are also cute, lively, industrious and destructive. But, I didn’t know until this week that they like to eat paint. My newly painted storage room developed bare spots just under the eaves. What on earth caused them? The building had been beautifully painted just […]
