Yesterday was one of those rare, golden days, a day when I reaped the bounty of years gone by. Dad planted some grape vines a long time ago; I don’t even remember how many years ago. Yesterday, I gathered what he had painstakingly planted. His great-grandchildren will be beneficiaries of those lovely grapes made into jelly. That’s, let […]
Jul 24, 2015
The View From My Front Porch
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This is not my front porch. It is a front porch. But the view is not too different from mine. I like front porches. They aren’t as popular as they once were. Maybe it’s because we have so little time to come and sit a spell, talk things over with friends, or just simply stop and look at […]
Jul 12, 2015
Sunday Morning All Around
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It’s a lovely, quiet Sunday morning in NW Arkansas. The sun highlights freshly washed greens in leaves and grass. I like trees and woodsy areas. That’s probably why Darcy Campbell and Flora Tucker live in a heavily forested part of NE Oklahoma called Levi. It’s in Ventris County. Darcy and Flora are basically country people although Darcy […]
May 26, 2015
Mysterious Morning
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If a writer of mysteries (me) ever needed a mysterious atmosphere in which to write a mystery, that dark, dangerous, scary time is now! In fact, after a night of lightning and storm warnings, it’s still dark and foreboding this morning. My heart goes out to the people in Texas and Oklahoma and also here […]
Apr 24, 2015
Disaster at the Homestead
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The house had been built with a big chimney on the side that ran up both levels of the structure and extended about six feet above the roof to allow escaping embers from the upstairs fireplace to cool before falling back onto the roof. But now, instead of the tall chimney, there was only a […]
Apr 7, 2015
A Homey, Lovely Mess
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Today is a special day, a national holiday that I’ll bet you are not aware of. I wasn’t. It is a day to gladden the cockles of my heart and take a load of guilt off my shoulders. Now, who wouldn’t want a holiday like that? You know that sink full of dirty dishes in the kitchen? Are […]
