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What Did You Fail at This Week?
If you follow Twitter, you know that Wednesday is #WisdomWednesday. I like to scan through the posts. Today, some were so saccharine, I...

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Mar 27, 20191 min read


Dru Ann Love -- Best Friend to Mystery Writers and Readers
New Yorker Dru Ann Love loves a good mystery. But more that, she loves introducing new mystery authors to the many readers of her blog,...

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Feb 19, 20192 min read


WINTER TRIANGLE
I get home from work after 8 pm. It’s dark and it has been cold even here in Northern California. But I still have to take my dog,...

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Feb 9, 20191 min read


WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM (And a Little About Free Diving)
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht, (Published January 30, 2018 by G.P. Putnam's Sons) is a devasting look at ‘comfort women' or...

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Feb 4, 20192 min read


GEEK OUT FOR GRAMMAR
When I was in high school (back in the days of the dinosaur), my favorite subject was English. I enjoyed reading everything from A Tale...

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Jan 18, 20192 min read


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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Jan 1, 20193 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 24, 20183 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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Dec 5, 20182 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 28, 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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Oct 25, 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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Oct 19, 20183 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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Sep 10, 20185 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 31, 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 23, 20182 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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Jul 6, 20181 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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Jun 25, 20183 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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May 25, 20181 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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May 15, 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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May 7, 20182 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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May 2, 20181 min read
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