Unless you’ve been living in a cave (without wi-fi), you know that Mother’s Day is this Sunday. Seems like the perfect time for a Mother’s Day post! But Amazon let me down this year, in terms of its rockin’ Mother’s Day gift suggestions. If you don’t know what I mean, check out the Pole-Dancing Lessons, or…
Imagine young ladies, away from home with the holidays approaching, during a time when it was unconventional for women to undergo such a separation. In the 19th century, home was a woman’s sphere, the domestic realm over which she ruled. She didn’t stray far from it. Around the 1880s/1890s, however, some of the well-educated daughters…
Hi, everyone! I was looking up “dowager” to make sure I had the correct usage in my current project (book 3 of the Concordia Wells mysteries). Among the search results, Google obligingly offered a video collage of one-liners and mannerisms from Downton Abbey’s own dowager, Lady Violet Grantham. Even though I came to the series…
Today I’m responding to Piper Bayard’s Firelands Reader/Blogger Challenge (which celebrates the debut of her post-apocalyptic novel Firelands -more on that below), because I can’t resist an opportunity to win a can of Tactical Bacon. Of course, Piper’s Survival Kit includes a lot of other handy tools for surviving The End of the World, but it…
I’m so glad you all got a kick out of yesterday’s post, where I talked about the wacky Mother’s Day gift suggestion Amazon sent me. (Pole-dancing lessons would be considered a crazy Mother’s Day gift, right? Based on some of your comments yesterday, I’m not so sure, LOL). But we’re not done yet! Today, Amazon emailed…
Look what popped up in my inbox today: The last time I was dangling like that I was wearing plaid shorts and scuffed tennies, my hair in braided pigtails, looking for a lost tooth on the playground. I’m sure my toes weren’t pointed. They didn’t call me “klutzy Kathy” in school for nothing. So,…
I don’t talk much about my personal life on this blog, but my public and private lives seem to be intersecting lately. Especially today: my first mystery, Dangerous and Unseemly, has been released on Amazon – more on that later – and also today, my first child, Patrick, turns 20! I know that 21 is supposed to…
Welcome to the first of a series of character sketches, based upon the people who live in the world of Dangerous and Unseemly, my debut mystery novel. Each post will provide a particular character’s “view from an armchair,” a unique look into that character as he or she sits in a favorite spot to read, sew, converse,…
