This is an excerpt from the latest Ned McNeil cozy, Murder By Moonlight. Usually, Ned enjoyed a walk through autumn woods, but today something went painfully wrong. I sang as I drove, windows rolled down. Ulysses didn’t object, so I took that as a sign of approval. My mind was on the events of the […]
Sep 9, 2021
An Uncomfortable Post
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This is an un comfortable post because it goes against the popular narrative, the spin that is accepted by busy people, too concerned with real, up to the minute problems to be worried about something that represents a person and an event more than 150 years ago. I could just keep my opinions to myself […]
Sep 4, 2021
The Clock Is Ticking
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The clock is ticking on the four-day countdown deal of the four DARCY AND FLORA COZY MYSTERIES at Amazon. This is Day 1, the only day all four books will be $4.99. Price will increase one dollar for each of the four days. Darcy and Flora are the intrepid mother/daughter sleuths who get stuck in […]
Aug 31, 2021
Way of Life at Etta Bend
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The following story is from my mother’s book, Remembering Etta Bend. These are the words of Susie Latty, who, much later, became my mom. This would have been around 1918. Most of the things we used were homemade and they had to last as long as possible. Papa carved his own handles and wood implements […]
Aug 22, 2021
Conclusion, Shadow on a Rock
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It took a week before Jase Marshall was able to appear before the court. Miss Georgia was all a-tremble as she, Jenny, Tommy, and James Stone arrived in the packed courtroom. Lathe met the little group at the door and escorted them up to a front seat. Jase sat in a hard-backed chair turned to […]
Aug 12, 2021
Walking Each Other Home
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When my mother was a little girl, she walked to visit friends. When it came time for her to go home, her friend would walk her part way. Then, Mom would turn and walk her friend back. I don’t know how long they kept doing this, but, I’m sure, for two little girls, it was […]
