Dead Week Special: The Cookie Rises
30 December 2022 When I was industriously labouring in Office World at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Dead Week was the name that one...
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Dec 25, 2022
Martha Blah Blah
Christmas 2022 This children’s book was published in 1996. The authoress is Susan Meddaugh, and I have to thank her for one of the most...
Dec 24, 2022
The Shopping Quilt
Christmas 2022 The Shopping Quilt Shopping is a woman’s art for what to hold and for what to part from: the past, or even the present....
Dec 24, 2022
Noël 2022 - Gifts from This Writer
Noël 2022 Gifts from This Writer Twas the night before Christmas and I will not deny I was editing scenes of a novel on the sly. I’d been...
Dec 21, 2022
The Last One
21 December 2022 Sometime during Thanksgiving, Dear Husband half-jokingly said to me that I’ve got six weeks left in the year to write...
Dec 4, 2022
About Democracy
4 December 2022 Democracy doesn’t die in darkness. It dies in Congress! Today, I started the holiday decorating. A cold, wet day, with...
Nov 11, 2022
Jack Jones - Lady
11 November 2022 This afternoon, I pieced together my Shopping Quilt, listening to Jack Jones. I used to own CDs of Mr. Jones, but for...
Nov 8, 2022
Return to Truckee
November 2022 This autumnal journey is one that I’d planned to undertake and one that is quite unexpected. My writing of SILVER DAGGER...
Nov 7, 2022
Scottish Oatcakes
7 November 2022 This recipe has been altered slightly to allow for the inclusion of a sprinkling of dried cranberries. The prep work is...
Oct 31, 2022
Black Sheep - Black Cat
Halloween 2022 I was a Black Sheep long before I was a Black Cat, although my beloved and dearly departed black cat, Annabella, would,...
Oct 12, 2022
Change of Names
12 October 2022 Not mine, of course, but the titles of the Dinosaurus-Media in Great Britain. This morning, I was reading some news,...
Sep 5, 2022
The Mechanical Age
Labor Day 2022 The Kitchen Aid washing machine in my Dream House is not working — as of last night. I was not the discoverer of the...
Sep 5, 2022
Backstory - Silver Dagger
Labor Day 2022 Back in Time to Truckee The name of a folk song that I’d heard during my childhood formed, from the very start, the title...
Aug 21, 2022
Barbed Wire & Forked Tongues
8 October 2022 Before the settling of the American West was settled, barbed wire formed the physical closing of the range. This cruelly...
Aug 1, 2022
Wooly Bully
Summer 2022 Here’s some music destined to make you smile! I vividly recall this song being played during my childhood at the boardwalk in...
Jul 31, 2022
Backstory - The Silent Heart
31 July 2022 THE SILENT HEART — in draft form — has been around for a long time in my life, in my paper files, in my computer files....
Jul 22, 2022
Alexander Hamilton - The Strong Arm
22 July 2022 Alexander Hamilton is my favorite Founding Father. He founded the city of my birth, Paterson, New Jersey, and he was an...
Jul 4, 2022
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Independence Day 2022 Swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home, I say swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home. I...
Jul 2, 2022
Freedom Unmasked
2 July 2020 Yesterday, I was working on my laptop, quite happily I might add, working on the translation of Chapter 74 of THE DAWN into...
Jun 15, 2022
Price of Remaining
June 2022 Whether to go or whether to stay: it’s an ages old question, a dilemma that can fix the feet of a hesitant soul right where...
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