I’ve just completed serving on a jury. It was a four-day civil trial. Not at all complicated, in the broad scheme of things, but a very disturbing series of events in the lives of all the parties involved. I couldn’t blog about the trial while it was going on, but now I am allowed to …
Like most people, I usually start the New Year with a series of lofty goals for the next 365 days. Most of the really important ones are usually lost or abandoned within the first few days, partly because those goals involve changing habits that have been practiced for months on end. So let it be …
It’s the end of 2015. Now I have to start worrying about writing the wrong year on checks. I also have a lot planned for 2016, but I will get to that when I do my New Year’s post. What I want to do now is a recap of what I have accomplished in 2015. …
It’s Christmas time, and as my gift to my readers, I am offering a short novella in the Hot Dog Detective series. When Santa turns up dead in a Christmas Tree lot, things look bad for Christmas. Especially since the man playing Santa, who was working at the lot over the holidays, was a friend …
Happy Thanksgiving (at least to all my American readers)! I hope that everyone gets to be with those they love, find a moment to reflect on what they are thankful for, and maybe watch a football or basketball game. Or listen to Christmas carols, as I tend to do on Thanksgiving. This has not been …
Some good news and some bad news. First the good news. I got a wonderful review of “The Avid Angler” by Linda Mims on her blogsite Boom-a-cious (http://boomacious.com/2015/06/the-avid-anglerthe-hotdog-detective/). I urge you to check out her blog – it’s fun, interesting, and varied. Now for the bad news. My computer crashed again. Once more it was …