Where are you right now, this moment? I don’t mean in what town, state, or country are you, but where are your thoughts today, as of this moment in time? Remembering times past is well and good, in small doses, but we don’t live there any more. The past is just that–it’s gone. The […]
Dec 27, 2019
The Life of an Old Barn
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Arkansas and Oklahoma are blessed with many beautiful old barns. When I say old, I mean those that were built from the ground up, not pre-fab or metal. It is painful to see a barn that is 80 or 100 years old slowly crumbling with no one to care for it. When it’s gone, […]
Dec 20, 2019
A Musical Creative Cozy Mystery
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On the first day of Christmas, Santa brought to me a creative cozy mystery. On the second day of Christmas, Santa brought to me two tidy murders and a creative cozy mystery. On the third day of Christmas, Santa brought to me three suspects skulking, two tidy murders, and a creative cozy mystery. On the fourth […]
Dec 8, 2019
A Little Cedar and a Big Storm
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Fierce winds tugged at Little Cedar. His scrawny boughs bent and swayed but he dug his roots deeper and hung onto the rock buried beneath the mountain soil. “The wind is so cold,” said Little Cedar. He shivered from his topmost limb to the bottom of his twisted trunk. “It must be nearly Christmas […]
Dec 4, 2019
Wintertime Woods
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I drove by a small grove of trees the other day and memories filled my mind of other days and other wintertime woods–times when the trees rose, gray and bare to a cloudy sky, just like this day. Brown, crisp leaves of autumn lay in heaps at their feet. The wind that stirred the leaves […]
