Thought: Love makes itself known in the simplest way: a home-cooked meal, a family well-provided for, treasuring each hour and each day. My family likes to tell each other, “I love you,” as one or the other goes out the door. Through the years, we’ve come to realize how important it is to say these words while […]
Oct 15, 2018
Five Degrees Above Freezing
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It’s hard to believe, but the thermometer tells me it is thirty-seven degrees this morning! Five degrees above freezing? How’d that happen? Wasn’t it just a couple of weeks ago that we were sweltering under summer’s heat? When fall decided to make her appearance, she did so with a bang. She wasn’t shy. Last […]
Oct 14, 2018
The Last Free Day
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This is the last day that the second Darcy and Flora cozy mystery, Grave Shift, will be free as an eBook on Amazon. If your weather has been cold and rainy, as it has here in NW Arkansas, let me tell you, a good book is the perfect way to spend these days that […]
Oct 13, 2018
Warm Up a Chilly Fall Day
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What can warm up a chilly fall day? A free cozy mystery, of course! And, for two days only, Saturday, October 13 (today!) and Sunday, October 14, the second in the Darcy and Flora mystery series, Grave Shift, is absolutely free as an ebook on Amazon. As you know, Darcy Campbell, a retired investigative […]
Oct 12, 2018
Looking Back at Ireland, From Four Years Away
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It’s cool and rainy here in NW Arkansas this morning. It was cool and rained part of almost every day four years ago in Ireland. But then, the sun came out and shone from a blue sky upon those very green hills. I’ve enjoyed looking back at this trip of a lifetime. I hope […]
Oct 11, 2018
Coming to Grips with Life
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Yesterday, I attended a funeral and it was, as funerals are wont to be, sobering and reflective, and a tribute to the one who had lived life and moved on. This was of a young man I had watched grow up. As I listened to the songs and heard the eulogy, I remembered long ago […]
