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,...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

It started on August 4. My grandson, a college sophomore, and his girlfriend were playing video games in the living room. I was working...

Marin County Open Space has joined other agencies in Marin and hired some special workers to clear out the underbrush and reduce fire...

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...

There are many traditional ways to celebrate July 4th, America’s Independence Day. Watch fireworks. March in hometown parades and picnic,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

The Tucson Festival of Books (TFOB) was a well-organized flurry of authors, books, readings, as well as food and music. Phew…almost too...

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...

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....