Happy Spring! Here’s a re-post (with tweaks) from a couple of years ago. May the hummers and refunds be with you. 😉 ~Kathy Welcome to April 15th, that time in the U.S. where adults pore over forms, tax software, receipt scraps, and forgotten resolutions to keep better track this year. Sitting in front of our…
I was shopping for something on Amazon last week (I can’t remember what, but oh well, it will be a fun surprise when it arrives) and ran across the “Bic for Her” pen. I’d seen Ellen DeGeneres’s hilarious riff on the product and thought I’d check out the Amazon reviews, since it’s such a mock-worthy…
Happy April Fool’s, everyone! In honor of the occasion, I thought I’d provide a little snippet of what Victorians in the U.S. liked to do on this day, as seen through the eyes of some New York newspapers of the time. Below is an illustration of common pranks: the brick-under-the hat trick, the money-on-a-rope ruse,…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone! Today I’m blogging over at Misterio Press. Come join us! 4 Signs that it’s St. Pat’s Day and not the Zombie Apocalypse 2 people like this post. Like Unlike
Hi everyone! Around our neck of the woods, we are dealing with “in-between-ness”: the snow is still strewn in melty-gray piles, it’s not quite spring, daylight savings time has started, Downton Abbey is over, and Easter is still weeks away. Oh, and Leonard Nimoy died. 🙁 Sigh. In other words, things are feeling kind of “blah” around…
I have a new series coming out, and I wanted you all to be the first to know about it! Chronicles of a Lady Detective The series is centered upon a character many of you know from the Concordia Wells mysteries: Penelope Hamilton. You may recall that she served as lady principal of Hartford Women’s College…
…or “Fasnacht” Day, an old Pennsylvania Dutch tradition. It’s celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday, on the same day as Fat Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras. A fasnacht is a pastry deep-fried in lard, similar to a donut, often dusted with sugar. The fasnacht tradition has merged with the Polish paczki (a donut filled with jelly that…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Valentine’s Day is coming up. Yep, the holiday that keeps the greeting card, flower, and chocolate industries afloat until Mother’s Day. Usually the gifts are simple: chocolates, cards, flowers…maybe a diamond? But what about the special mystery lover in your life? The usual offerings just…
