My birthday and Fourth of July mini-vacation was going great until I heard the news late Monday night about the mass shooting in Illinois during a Fourth of July parade in the city of Highland Park. Seven people were killed and dozens injured. I almost got whiplash as I went from extreme happiness and joy […]
Since I’m still in recovery mode from my shoulder surgery and some complications that popped up – literally as in swollen feet and legs – I’m pulling a post from July 2015. My friend Slim Randles wrote about what the Fourth of July holiday means in this thoughtful essay about parades, flags, and Independence Day.
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One of these weeks, months, I’ll get back to a regular working routine. As of today, time on the keyboard is still limited. Some things I can dictate, like work on my book, but I’ve always needed to punch the keys for updating the blog. Goes back to my newspaper days when I wrote columns
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Police in my little city are going down the street ticketing cars that are parked on the grass. Not the grass by the street, mind you, where it could be considered a traffic hazard, but the grass in the people’s own yards. Apparently there is some kind of ordinance here that says a car has
Sending a warm greeting to all my friends and family members who are celebrating the day. It will be a quiet one for me as the two most important men in my life, my father and my husband, are now playing Euchre together in heaven. Being by myself is okay, though, as I’m still in
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Tomorrow it’ll be two weeks since the surgery to repair the rotator cuff in my shoulder. Before the surgery, I was hoping to be doing much better by this point, but I still have quite a bit of recovery to go. I’m sure that has something to do with old bodies and old bones. 🙂
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THE STEALING TIME SERIES Stealing TimeShattering TimeKilling TimebyKJ WATERS Time Travel / Suspense / Romance / Alt History / MysteryPublisher: Blondie Books Scroll down for Giveaway! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stealing Time, December 20, 2014, 319 pages A devastating hurricane. A time travel betrayal. Will Ronnie survive the witch hunt or forever be lost in time? Stealing Time
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Since yours truly is currently incapacitated – no, not what you’re thinking – although I wish I were just in the shower. I’m having surgery and leaving you in the good hands of my friend, Slim Randles. Also leaving you with incomplete sentences, but maybe you will find them entertaining. Not as entertaining as Slim
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I wrote the following post Tuesday early afternoon before hearing about the shooting at the school in Uvalde. My posts are often written the day before they go live, often to give myself a chance to edit or change entirely. I’m not going to change this one. We do need a moment to focus on
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IT’S A MAD, MAD MURDER A Maddie Montgomery MysterybyCINDY VINCENT Cozy Culinary Mystery / Women Sleuths / Amateur SleuthsPublisher: Whodunit PressDate of Publication: November 15, 2021 *** 303 pages Scroll down for Giveaway! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Things are a little too hot to handle for famous culinary-mystery author, Maddie Montgomery, in her normally quiet neighborhood set
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