Damn Yankees and Other Pests

Since moving to Florida as a Yankee, I’ve learned most things about native pests the hard way. Mutant-size Roaches While unpacking that first week, I learned the two-part horror of what the gentry euphemistically calls a Palmetto bug. The first horror is that it looks...

Becoming Bold

Earning my pilot’s license was the boldest thing I have done since kissing Steve Gadow in seventh grade. Kissing Steve put me in the majority of girls in seventh grade, but earning my pilot’s license put me in a minority. An underwhelming six percent of the pilot’s...

Grasslands Book Club Hosts Author

Thank you, to the Grasslands Book Club for hosting me to discuss North of the Killing Hand and the writing process. Thank you, Stephanie Patterson, for hosting the meeting at her lovely home. These photos were taken by Grasslands Club President Laurie Melton. I shared...

Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

In Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead, Inspector Armand Gamache, haunted by two previous cases and injured from one, retreats to Old Quebec City to conduct research. At the Literary and Historical Society, he finds obscure historical battle information. The “Lit and...

The Devil You Know by P.J. Tracy

Detective Margaret Nolan is sent to investigate a body found after an earthquake in Malibu. This leads her uphill to a magnificent home where a large party ran into the wee hours. The body belongs to actor Evan Hobbes who attended that party. Wading into the cesspool...