Today, we’re considering that mystery classic: Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon (1930) Of course, many of us are familiar with the 1941 film, starring Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade. However, the background and elements of Hammett’s original novel are fascinating, and worth a closer look. Hammett’s novel is considered part of the “hard-boiled” subgenre of…
Ooh…bacon. The bad boy of the food world, with its high-fat, high-sodium, preservative-laden attitude. And yet…we can’t stay away, whether it’s a breakfast buffet at Big Boy, an appetizer at Coastal Flats (love their brown sugar-cured bacon/deviled eggs with spiced pecans dish), or the humble BLT. Interesting bits about bacon (haha): Up until Shakespeare’s time…
Here in the United States, unless you’ve been living in a hole, you know that Mother’s Day is this Sunday (and if you forget, you’ll soon be hiding out in the doghouse, LOL). Most of us are affected by Mother’s Day in one way or another: if we aren’t moms ourselves, we each had a…
Welcome to Tuesday Terrific, where we celebrate getting over the Monday hump and picking up speed for the rest of the week. After spending the weekend at the Malice Domestic convention with fellow mystery writers and fans, discussing murder and mayhem in the rarified environment of hotel banquet halls, meeting rooms and lounges, I’ve been…
Hi, everyone! I’m off to the Malice Domestic Convention this weekend, reveling in the multitude of panel discussions of murder and mayhem, including the latest poisons that Luci Zahray, otherwise known as “the Poison Lady” has to share with us (over lunch, LOL). In addition, I’m looking forward to meeting cozy mystery writers galore, and mingling/…
Welcome to Tuesday Terrific, where we celebrate getting over the Monday hump and picking up speed for the rest of the week. We humans walk around this planet with a bit of a swagger, don’t you think? After all, we’re the big-shot, top-of-the-food-chain, opposible-thumbed bi-pedals with more brain capacity than we actually use. But there…
Welcome to Tuesday Terrific, where we celebrate getting over the Monday hump and picking up speed for the rest of the week. I am SO excited (somebody pinch me!) to have the ever-fabulous blogger/tech guru/writer/overall-great-gal Jenny Hansen here today! This Tuesday really is terrific, LOL. Jenny and I are doing a post swap in honor…
It’s ROW80 check-in time! In the Owen household this week, we’re celebrating not only goals semi-fulfilled, but the successful navigation of killer allergies, Friday the 13th, and tax preparation. I can’t say I suffered through the tax preparation end of things; I was spectator/sympathetic ear/sandwich preparer for He-Who-Braves-the-1040. In other words, my spectacular hubby, Paul. So,…
