“Now I’ve got that song stuck in my head.” How many times have you said that? I’ve never said it. You heard that correctly. Any tune I attempt ends up a river of nonsense notes spilled out on the rocks. Sunday morning during worship I lamented once again my total lack of a voice, as […]
Who would have known, two distinctly different mysteries in one weekend? And they are connected — sort of! When I offered to read and blog about Kathy Crestsinger’s recently released cozy mystery, Bogged Down by Murder I already knew it takes place in Shady Valley, a small mountain town in East Tennessee. The same weekend, I […]
Author, Candace West, has the spotlight here today. Reading her debut novel, Lane Steen, I identified deeply with the emotions and experiences of the title character, her life and her family. Our circumstances were different, but the pain manifested in incredibly similar ways. It was a delight to be a very early reader of the […]
The name, Mark Twain, brings to mind rafts and white washed fences, rivers and riverboats, and characters like Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Becky Thatcher. And a place on the Mississippi — Hannibal, Missouri. Last fall my husband and I veered off our path a bit to visit Hannibal. So much rich history of this […]
