I love history, especially American history, most especially my family’s history. The trouble is that so much of my family’s history is a mystery. Now, I’ve explored heritage and genealogical websites and know more about my ancestors than I would have otherwise but I’d like to know more. I wish a member or two of my […]
Aug 9, 2015
A Morning Celebration
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Each morning when I get out of bed, I feel like celebrating! It’s great to be alive, to have a new day before me, to visit with family and friends, to be able to write again! Wonderful. And, I’m enjoying my first cup of Folgers. Some of my instructions from the hospital said to beware […]
Aug 4, 2015
A Mysterious Life
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Life itself is a mystery. I never know what’s just around the corner. Neither do you. And, we never know how those mysteries will ultimately turn out. Sometimes it seems we don’t have much control of the mystery nor how it ends. Dad’s philosophy was, “Life isn’t what you make it. It’s how you take […]
Jul 29, 2015
An Interview with Darcy and Flora
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It has been a while since we’ve heard from our Roving Reporter but here she is, catching up with Darcy and Flora on the front porch of their new house in Ventris County, Oklahoma. Roving Reporter: I love your house! But, don’t you miss your old house in Levi? It had personality, character. Flora: I […]
Jul 28, 2015
Daylight
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This first cup of coffee is having a tough time making inroads on pre-dawn drowsiness. But, reinforced by a second cup of steaming brew, I’m counting on the caffeine. Do you ever watch a commercial that must have taken an astounding amount of money to produce and, when it finishes, wonder what it was promoting? I remember […]
Jul 26, 2015
Agatha and I
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Agatha Christie didn’t need them. Mary Higgins Clark doesn’t want them. G. K. Chesterton spurns them and Jeanne M. Dams doesn’t use them. My hero Mary Roberts Rinehart steered clear of them too. They are superfluous, distracting, downright disgusting and completely unnecessary. What am I talking about? Cursing and steamy scenes. These authors wrote/write riveting, absorbing mysteries. My goal is […]
