The title of this post will make sense in a minute. I promise. I hope. Please bear with me. The first side of the contrast is based on the fact that after a year of the start of the current administration, I still struggle to make sense of the shit-show that is our government in […]
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Last weekend I was gut-punched by the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. That day, like any mother anywhere, I thought of his parents and their terrible grief. Grief is certainly their’s first. I freely acknowledge that. But there is a grief that many of us are feeling as well. If grief was a circle,
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Late last week I was going to do a post about this book I’ve been reading that has just blown me away. It was going to be part of my Friday Reads features, but then, well, life got in the way. I was simply numbed by the murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis and
Are you partying tonight? My celebration will be small, just me and one of my sons. As in years past, we’ll toast the New Year around ten o’clock because it’s midnight somewhere. Then he’ll go back to his house & we’ll both be tucked in before the bell tolls midnight. Tomorrow I’ll make a few
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For those of you who celebrate Christmas, I do hope you were able to gather with family and friends and have a day that created memories that you’ll treasure for years to come. The memories are a huge part of the magic of Christmas. This year, I hosted the Miller clan at my new house,
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For years now we’ve all been trying real hard to be politically correct in our Winter Solstice greetings, saying Happy Holidays, lest we offend someone who doesn’t celebrate Christmas, but I’ve always been a bit of a rebel. Besides that, I’m not the least bit offended when I hear Happy Hanukkah or Happy Kwanzaa. Those
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Decorating… check. Baking… sorta check. Still cookies to make. Gifts and cards… also sorta check. Still have to wrap a few gifts. House ready for company… check as soon as I get all the wrapping paper and bits of ribbon off the guest bed. Now to just close down my office for the rest of
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First story is something I wrote about the weeks before Christmas a long time ago as part of my weekly humor column for the Plano Star Courier. While the people and places have changed, not much else has when it comes to getting ready for the Big Day. I’m always in what I call The
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As years pass, we tend to lose sight of things from the past that shouldn’t be forgotten. Today, Dec 7th, is the 83rd anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. The attack was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at
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The reason I write police procedurals goes back many moons to my introduction to the genre. At the time, I didn’t have a burning desire to write them, just enjoyed the hell out of reading the stories featuring cops who always got the bad guys. It started with Ed McBain. A section of his bio
