What had caused the tear in the beautiful lining? Maybe I could repair it. Although I wasn’t much of a seamstress, surely I could mend that. I ran my hand around the lining, noting its smoothness. What was this? Something hard was lodged between the lining and the leather. Turning the purse upside down and […]
Aug 1, 2022
Hasten Slowly
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Happy first day of August! Did you know that today, August 1, is National Girlfriends’ Day, National Mountain Climbing Day, and National Raspberry Cream Pie Day? The whole month is Admit You’re Happy Month, and this first week of August is Simplify Your Life Week. Pretty interesting month, isn’t it? If you have an August […]
Jul 25, 2022
A Moonlight Surprise
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Slipping from tree to bush, I walked as softly as my boots allowed. It’s funny how weird things looked at night, how lonely and hushed, as if the familiar landscape were an alien planet with no life on it except mine. I stopped in the shadow of the farmhouse and listened; no sound of pickax […]
Jul 14, 2022
Inheritance
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I’m delving into my ancestry and, let me tell you, it’s fun and it’s also eye-opening. Trying to find these people from whom I resulted is like trying to solve a mystery. Sometimes it takes a whole lot of sleuthing and it’s the sort of on-going mystery that doesn’t seem to have an end. An […]
Jul 12, 2022
Murder By Moonlight
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Have you read the newest Ned McNeil cozy mystery? Murder by Moonlight is available on Amazon.com. Here’s an excerpt: Had hours passed since I realized I was trapped? It felt like a century. Exhausted, I realized that beating on the wall and yelling wasn’t going to help. I was in a cocoon of earth and […]
Jun 24, 2022
When All Else Fails
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Tears of frustration blurred my vision. Why had I even seen that small beacon to the outside world when it was evidently far beyond my reach? How could I, a lady of indeterminate age, ever hope to scale these rocky walls? Even a college athlete might find it a lost cause. It would have been […]
