Revenge of the Killer Flamingos MJ’s Dys-Daze Mysteries One by Patricia Burroughs A-D-H-D! Oh! Look! A Mystery! MJ O’Malley is impulsive, easily distractible, and even more easily bored. But when a hot lawyer hires her to create a flash mob … Continue reading
No, the title isn’t a typo. It is my attempt to define the word: genre. No wait, I already wrote a blog about that, and I got some interesting responses. Instead, I’m going to write about people in the world … Continue reading
Now is the time of year one gets catalogs. Tons of them. In snail and e-mail. Sales. ½ off, 50% off (yes, that’s the same thing) buy-one-get-one-free. Click-bait, all of it. I saw a coat. I have a thing for … Continue reading
They’re everywhere, touching every wall, in every purse and pocket. A little computer. Or a big one, depending. I’m sitting across one right now—that is, several. And tapping on one as I sit. There’s the Firestick and the Apple TV. … Continue reading
Beck Wyatt has always hated her mother–enough to kill her. As luck would have it, someone beats her to murdering Mommy Dearest and now Beck gets to plan the tackiest funeral the world has ever seen for the worst woman she’s ever known.
Continue readingIt’s time. It’s past time. It’s so past time. The time to begin downsizing is any time, but the job can be greatly affected by the volume of stuff to be sorted, the age of the sorter, and motivation. The … Continue reading
Today, a pastiche. Pastiche: an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another artist, style or period. Alternate definition (my favorite): a confused mixture or jumble — The New Oxford American Dictionary, 2001. Altering the Smile. As I … Continue reading
The life of a writing nurse is pedestrian most of the time, excepting the occasional travel to South Africa, or a house fire or your husband rolling the car, or getting laid off. Twice. So when we went to our … Continue reading
Imagine a Venn diagram. The blue circle contains people who might have attended a convention at soem point in their lives and have developed any kind of affection for them and a certain amount of knowledge about the backroom workings … Continue reading
Could a computer run the United States? Let’s suppose we’re not that far off from this. I probably won’t be alive and neither will Donald Trump (fortunately) but it could happen. (Consider WestWorld—or is it Disney World?) Today’s political arena … Continue reading
