Thanks to Carl Brookins for an introduction to another good read. Murder Has No Class Rebecca KentISBN:978-0-425-23207-1 Berkley Prime Crime Tired of the daily news of the world? Read too many grim thrillers or suspenseful detective stories lately? If you are looking for a change of pace, for an amusing, diverting traditional mystery in the best […]
Open Season
Friday’s Odds and Ends
Pointing out the dangers of labeling people, Juan Williams, has this to say in a recent interview in The Dallas Morning News, “Most black people tell me I’m a conservative. Most white people tell me I am a liberal. But this paradigm is a shortcut for the lazy. It is for people who want the
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Advice to the Lovelorn
Many thanks to Slim Randles for sharing another story with us. What would I do without my friends who are so generous with their talent and time? Enjoy…. Marvin Pincus, (since his honorary degree, now being called Associate Pincus), turned the lights on his fly-tying bench, coming to focus on the small vice where love
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Remembering 9/11
To some people it might seem like all we do is open wounds to have them bleed again by remembering these horrific events. It’s better to just pack it all away and forget about it and get on with the healing. That is the same approach that many take to the grieving process in general.
Holiday Weekend
In honor of the Labor Day holiday weekend for those of us in the States, I thought I would the lyrics to this great song by the country group Alabama. To listen to the song on YouTube, click on the title: “Forty Hour Week” There are people in this country who work hard every
Guest Post from Slim Randles
Here is another guest post from my friend and fellow writer, Slim Randles. I do appreciate the fact that he is so generous to share his column “Home Country” with my readers here. Dewey Decker silently shoveled cow manure into the back of his pickup, but for the first time, his heart wasn’t in it.
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Monday Morning Musings
As many students are starting college classes this week, I thought it would be good to share an interesting article that was written by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, authors of the book, Higher Education? The article was in a recent edition of The Dallas Morning News and focused on the importance of reclaiming liberal
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Book Review – “Sorrow Wood” by Raymond Atkins
Sorrow WoodRaymond L. AtkinsMedallion Press, IncISBN: 9781934755631Hardcover $25.95 This book was first published in 2009 in hardcover and is now available as an e-book as well. I thought I would share a review I did for another site back when the book first came out. This is a book that I have kept to read
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Guest Post from John Desjarlais
Please help me welcome John Desjarlais as she shares his experience with getting to know and understand a female character who is Latina. Sometimes it’s hard enough for a man to understand any woman, but what a challenge it must have been to understand a woman of another culture. When I first began to gather
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Guest Blogger Tomorrow
There will be no book review today, but I will say I am reading Double Cross by James Patterson and enjoying it. I recently started reading his books again after reading I, Alex a year or so ago, and I admire his ability to keep a reader engaged. It’s true that Alex Cross is a
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