19 April 2020 Today, after a rather long hiatus of about six years from large-scale sewing projects, I started sewing a quilt. It’s...

April 2020 Just as murder can be hazardous to your health, crime can be hazardous to the law. I long ago opined to my children that if...

April 2020 “I already know you’re screwing me. Don’t expect me to help you with it.” That nearly ribald statement was one that I made...

Easter 2020 I knew that it would not take long before the Macron government went full-Vichy, but I did not ever envision the post-card —...

Spring 2020 Goodness Gracious! Mother and her cookies have crumbled! I knew from the moment I saw this warning on the packaging: NEW...

St. Patrick’s Day 2020 The Fear Of Missing Out — FOMO — is a fear that I have very rarely felt or given into. Perhaps it is because my...

March 2020 Born in 1839 into a family of superlative artistic talents, Christina Rossetti, the youngest of the brood, developed her...

Frontier Themes: A Cowgirl’s Prayer Thank you Lord for helping me through the night, Thank you for helping me see the Light. Thank you...

February 2020 Many are the pleasures of a novelist when she discovers, or re-discovers, elements of her writing that she had long...

February 2020 I did not watch Columbo, or any of the NBC Mystery Movies when they were initially on the telly in the 1970s, or, more...

January 2020 The bully is the sneak-thief of decency. Unable to come out into the open and fight like an honorable human being, he, or...

Year's End 2019 Decades ago, I watched the Perry Mason Revival Movie series. Perry Mason returned, but the theme song got a bit mangled...

Christmas 2019 One of my all-time favorite tele-visual feasts at Christmastime is Episode #10 of Season 1 of Early Edition. This vintage...

Christmas 2019 Western Gifts from Writers These literary gifts are from writers of Western Civilization, but not necessarily from writers...

December 2019 He did not believe in me, but he did not believe in many things. Perhaps he’d once believed in hard work, but only because he also believed that hard work would bring rewards to him. In that sense he was corruptible, for work is a virtue, a reward in itself. Work is not a bait or a lure that brings the reward — of riches, glory, status, pleasure, material possessions. I’d once upon a time thought the world of him, and that world might even have been a domain he

25 November 2019 This morning I decided to search online for instructions on creating a French twist. Yikes! There are portions of entire...

November 2019 Decades ago, during my single years, I routinely attended an aerobics class led by a gal who became a good friend. This...

Halloween 2019 They just don’t do cannibalism like they used to! Such was my response after reading “Des Cannibales,” Of Cannibals, the...

Halloween 2019 The spirit of the American West was not risk-averse. It hungered for danger, in a way that 21st-century Americans can only...

October 2019 Growing up in New Jersey, I departed at a young age from that state with the conclusion that corruption between politicians...