Yesterday was a near-perfect day, recalling the James Russell Lowell poem, What Is So Rare As a Day In June. Matt and Dawn, Sara and Nathan came, bringing a lot of heart-healthy foods for lunch and later. Dawn and I packed serving-size lunches and put them in the freezer. Nemo was glad to see everyone together […]
Jun 5, 2016
Chasing Away the Shadows
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Such an absolutely beautiful Sunday morning! Not a leaf stirs as the sun dapples them with gold and shadow. On my neighbor’s driveway, a rabbit with wet feet stops and does a bit of drying off. Two squirrels chase each other around the maple. In the back yard, the little robin family is out for an […]
Jun 2, 2016
Flood Waters and Faith
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The sky is dark this morning. This type of weather might be thought of as foreboding or foreshadowing, especially for friends and family in Texas. High water there already and more rains coming for Texas. Heartbreaking pictures of animals trying to escape flood waters, taking refuge wherever they can, on porches, on tops of cars, anywhere higher […]
Jun 1, 2016
Creatures of Habit
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This morning, as the coffee finished perking, I looked in the cabinet for my favorite mug. Coffee would surely taste just as good in any other cup or mug but I really like this one. Why? It has a blue stripe and a blue flower, is larger at the bottom than the top, isn’t too large and […]
May 31, 2016
The Tattered Cloak of Self Esteem
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Do you ever have a day or a week when you want to throw in the towel, look yourself in the mirror, and say, “So, what made you ever think you could be a writer?” (Or a pianist or a cook or an …anything?) Do you feel like a weed in the garden of life? Or […]
May 28, 2016
Happy Mentions
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Tweets and twitters and they’re not even birds! However, they are music to my ears. And joyful. Two beautifully-worded mentions of two of my cozy mysteries: Special Novel Ties is a new site by Earl Chinnici. This is a fun concept Earl developed with a tie or something in common one book has with another. In The […]
