And then in the back of the baseball stadium is a lovely park, small, quiet and as precious as any garden dotted throughout Japan. If you walk along the ramp that encircles the Dome you will see the garden.
What I could use right now is a good old fashioned baseball game. But the season will not start for another month and all I’m left with are memories of games. And I’m left with pictures of a time that…
This is a scene in either Hue or Hoi An in Vietnam. It’s a shame that my memory of those two cities in the middle of the country run together. But, these two men sitting, chatting, smoking and staying out…
A friend had to go away unexpectedly and she asked if I’d like to use her old farmhouse as a writer’s retreat for several days in her absence. Hey, sounded good to me. I only had to feed her two…
This is a bit of a gruesome story about my daughter when she was a little girl and one of her pet guinea pigs. She’d had several at this point, but this one turned out to be really quite feisty…
It’s been a while since my last posting. I guess I should level with you, I’m writing a novel and the blog though I thought would help me get to a deeper aspect of my writing and give me something…
Sandy Parshall, Lonnie Cruse, Sharon Wildwind, Julia Buckley and Elizabeth Zelvin are blogging for mystery lovers as Poe’s Deadly Daughters at www.poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com. They’d love visitors to comment and will be looking for guest bloggers, so they have invited interested parties…
The folks who give out the Nero awards have announced the new Black Orchid Novella Award which is to be given annually in partnership with Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (AHMM). The prize is $1,000 and publication in AHMM — and…
Today I wasn’t sure what to write in the blog. I’m still in the throws of clearing clutter and yesterday I picked up a couple boxes from the post office that my sister had sent. They contained a few cookbooks…