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SAYING GOODBYE TO A DOG I NEVER MET
It had been raining and windy for a few days but there was finally a break in the weather. I pulled McCovey’s harness over his head,...
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Dec 24, 20183 min read
HOLIDAY APPLE PIE
(Disclaimer – The pie is made from two recipes I found.) More than a month ago when I was planning for Thanksgiving, I asked grandson #1...
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Dec 5, 20182 min read
THE SECOND DRAFT (And you thought the first draft was hard)
I came across this tweet today: I know how HM Braverman feels. I have started working on the second draft of my third mystery in the...
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ggcarroll
Oct 28, 20183 min read
I'VE NEVER MET A JEW BEFORE
That was said to me when I was a sophomore at Indiana University, Bloomington, In. It was 1962. To be fair, the girl who said it was only...
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Oct 25, 20183 min read
MY PALS: OTHELLO AND ATTICUS FINCH
When the baseball season is over and I’ve worked my last SF Giants game until next March, I morph into an English tutor for first...
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ggcarroll
Oct 19, 20183 min read
REMEMBERING THE 1989 WORLD SERIES EARTHQUAKE
A few days ago, a post on one of my social media feeds reminded me that October 17 marked the anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake,...
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Sep 10, 20185 min read
!! IDENTITY STOLEN !!
It started on August 4. My grandson, a college sophomore, and his girlfriend were playing video games in the living room. I was working...
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Jul 31, 20182 min read
FOUR-FOOTED FIRE PREVENTERS
Marin County Open Space has joined other agencies in Marin and hired some special workers to clear out the underbrush and reduce fire...
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Jul 23, 20182 min read
RUGBY WORLD CUP 7'S KNOCK ME OUT
About a week ago, the only thing I knew about rugby was it is played without helmets and padding. It has a scrum (i.e. players from each...
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Jul 6, 20181 min read
#SECOND CIVIL WAR LETTERS
There are many traditional ways to celebrate July 4th, America’s Independence Day. Watch fireworks. March in hometown parades and picnic,...
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ggcarroll
Jun 25, 20183 min read
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME
With the 2018 Major League Baseball season almost half way over and the team statistics piling up day by day, there is one statistic I...
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May 25, 20181 min read
CALIFORNIA'S TRISHA CARSON, AMATEUR SLEUTH, INTERVIEWED!
Our girl, Trisha Carson, the amateur sleuth from Drop Dead Red and Dead in the Water is interviewed on Dru’s Book Musings. The interview...
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ggcarroll
May 15, 20182 min read
NOTORIOUS RBG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a rock star. The 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice has a tee shirt with her image on it that says, Notorious RBG,...
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ggcarroll
May 7, 20182 min read
A FOREHEAD SLAP MOMENT
A few weeks ago, I whined about some of my typographical errors that a reviewer found in Drop Dead Red. (Let’s have a contest. How many...
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ggcarroll
May 2, 20181 min read
THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY
Did you know that the Romans named the month of May after Maia, an earth goddess of growing plants? I have a great garden this year and...
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Apr 23, 20182 min read
MAKING MISTAKES
One thing I realized when I started writing mysteries is that mistakes come with the territory. As much as I want to get a squeaky clean,...
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ggcarroll
Apr 10, 20181 min read
EL CHEAPO WAY TO SUPPORT YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR
For those who like to read…or write…for that matter, here is a simple way to support books and those that write them. (This showed up on...
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Mar 16, 20183 min read
TUCSON WHIRLWIND
The Tucson Festival of Books (TFOB) was a well-organized flurry of authors, books, readings, as well as food and music. Phew…almost too...
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ggcarroll
Mar 6, 20181 min read
CLONE ME! I'M ATTENDING THE TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
I am so excited. I am on my way to Tucson to attend the Tucson Festival of Books, March 10-11 (and visit my sister.) If you don’t know...
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Feb 26, 20181 min read
Am I Still Contagious?
I don’t know what the cold and flu season has been like in your part of the country, but here in northern California, it has been awful....
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