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 30, 2016
A Tight Grip on Freedom
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I hate war. I hate the thought of it: the separation from loved ones, the pain and death and cruelty and barbarism. What is at the heart of war? Why can we not live, each in his own country, peacefully? “War is hell,” said General Sherman. He should know. He certainly inflicted a lot of it on the […]
May 29, 2016
In Flanders Fields
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Many years ago, I toured the battle site of the Battle of Vicksburg. Green, grassy knolls covered embankments from which cannons blazed death to opposing forces, a hundred years before. Once, the smoke of guns and the shouts and screams of dying and wounded men filled this battlefield. Now, all was quiet and birds sang. […]
May 27, 2016
A Bushel Basket of Cozies
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It is exciting to see the cover of my fourth Darcy and Flora cozy on my publisher’s website. It’s on the page called “Coming Soon” and, sure enough, Grave Heritage will be released in a few months. I hope you enjoy it. Sometimes people ask me where I get the ideas for my books. Let […]
