The sturgeon or green corn moon is here! This is a beautiful moon, worth watching. The names for full moons occurring at different times through the year are interesting. Early day people named them for good reasons, long ago when we lived closer to nature. The moon exerts a pretty powerful pull on the earth, causing the tides. […]
Aug 7, 2016
Ominousity
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If I were a poet of a few years ago, I would call the sky “gray and lowering”. A day of ominousity. No, not animosity–ominousity. It is a perfect day for putting a mystery writer in a mood to write dark and creepy foreshadowings. Why is it such a morning? Well, it’s cloudy and quiet […]
Jun 10, 2016
In the Cemetery Business
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My friend Joy recently said she might want me to write her obituary. She said this jokingly as a compliment. “Well, after all,” she said, “you are in the cemetery business.” Gravely speaking, I guess I am, but it’s only in a fictional way. I’ll have to admit that all three Darcy and Flora books […]
Jun 9, 2016
My Meadow, Nature’s Canvas
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When my husband, son and I lived in Oklahoma, our house had a meadow in back. I named our home and acres Manos Meadows. I loved that meadow. It was never the same from season to season. This is another feature story I did for The Tahlequah Daily Press, many years ago. Autumn moves through the meadow, […]
May 10, 2016
What Were Her Dreams Made Of?
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Her name was Lydia and I can imagine family and friends called her “Lyddie.” She was my grandmother’s grandmother. Born in 1823, she was a widow who lived by herself on her farm in Georgia. Recently, I read copies of letters she wrote to her daughter, Tep, and to her granddaughter, Edna. One letter is dated 1890. Dear […]
Apr 4, 2016
The Large and Unknown Noise in the Night
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Yesterday when I checked Facebook, I found that my hometown of Tahlequah had experienced a real-life mystery. Along about eleven o’clock Saturday evening, a large explosion or what sounded like an explosion startled everyone for miles around. Some people even reported feeling the shock waves. Some said it was a series of explosions. So far as […]
