You may have a fly on your nose, a lizard on your head, or your shoes may be untied. Watch out! It’s April Fool’s Day! How long has that light-hearted tradition been around? Well over three hundred years. It’s a time when people get kind of giddy, thinking about winter being over and spring […]
Apr 1, 2020
Don’t Be Fooled
Filed Under: Heritage · Tagged: April, April Fools Day, birthstones, cozy, flowers, Manos, mystery, poetry, Shakespeare, springtime, weather, Wordsworth
Jan 1, 2020
Celebrating 2020
Happy New Year and a glad start to the year 2020. An old saying is that whatever you do today you’ll find yourself doing all year. If you were born in January, your lovely birthstone is a garnet. Beautiful color! Your flower is a carnation which smells as sweet as anything I’ve ever smelled. […]
Filed Under: Musings · Tagged: birthstones, Christian mysteries, clean mysteries, cozies, famous January people, January, Manos, mysteries, New Year, small town mysteries, weather lore, women authors, women sleuths