First off a bit of a rant. Have you heard about the flap in North Carolina involving the Koch brothers? Apparently a political activist group funded by the Koch brothers is being investigated for sending mailers with incorrect information about how to register to vote to hundreds of North Carolina voters. In a formal complaint, […]
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Today’s Wednesday’s Guest is DL (David) Swykert, author of The Death of Anyone, a police procedural mystery set in my hometown, Detroit. As I mentioned in my review last Sunday, it was a pleasure to take a virtual trip back. I thought David might enjoy a cinnamon roll this morning with his coffee, and you
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Good Monday morning. I trust everyone had a great weekend and are energized for the work week ahead. What I’m Reading: Her Sister by Karen Rose Smith. This is book seven of her Search For Love series, but the first one I have tried. It is a romance with some mystery and suspense, and so
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The Death of AnyoneDJ SwykertMelange Books224 pagesASIN: B00BNQ6S74$2.99 The Death of Anyone, Melange Books, March 2013, is a fictional story of Detroit Homicide Detective, Bonnie Benham, who convinces the District Attorney to allow a Familial DNA search as she investigates the murder of several young girls. The book reveals standard investigative homicide procedures and the
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Hello, my name is Maryann, and I am a parent who spanked her children. Primarily with my hand and sometimes with a hot-wheel track – my boys can attest to how that stung without injuring them – but never with a weapon that would bruise them or make them bleed. And corporal punishment was reserved
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Please help me welcome Mags as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. She is the central character in Nancy Lynn Jarvis’s novel, Mags & The AARP Gang. I reviewed the book on Sunday, so you can check that out if you want to. While Mags is entertaining us here, I am over at The Blood Red Pencil with
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This one will be short as I was gone for the weekend and am still trying to play catch-up with my farm work and my office work. Then, too, I want to take time to join my knitting group for a while and just have fun. What I’m Reading: The Death of Anyone by David
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Mags And The AARP GangNancy Lynn JarvisFile Size: 2368 KBPrint Length: 266 pagesPage Numbers Source ISBN: 0983589127Publisher: Good Read Publishers; 1 edition (November 14, 2013)Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B00A946G3C Margaret Sybil Broadly Benson, known to her friends as Mags, is 83 years old, and she has a nice routine to her senior-style
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This will not be my usual Friday fare. You may have guessed that already by the different title, and I was trying not to write about what is going on with some pro football players. Really I was. I didn’t want to enter into the media coverage of the latest “bad boy” behavior in the
I’m so pleased to have Slim Randles as my Wednesday’s Guest this week. Instead of his usual humorous offering, he has a rather poetic piece about autumn. I guess since there is cowboy poetry, Slim won’t be offended by me referring to this as poetic. Since he is helping us welcome in Autumn, I thought
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