Meandering Monday about Which Details Matter

Welcome to the first Meandering Monday of 2019! I’ve been enjoying watching some series with my significant one. She’s heavily into Father Brown, and we’ve also discovered The Doctor Blake Mysteries. Both shows have a similar premise – a man who by profession is NOT a detective goes around behind the backs of the authorities … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “Quiet!”

Happy Holidays! Looks like Christmas doesn’t come up much in my fiction (like ONE TIME), so it’s a struggle if I want to stay topical with these fractured fragments. How about this – The 46th anniversary of the end of the final Apollo mission (17) was Wednesday (the mission was December 7th through the 19th), … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “Business is Business”

We’re still in the holidays, and so to stay topical, I’ll tell you that the next story mentions Christmas in it (conveniently, because I’m really just picking it because it’s the earlies ePublication that I haven’t done a fractured Friday for.) It’s also a fairy tale adaptation, which also seems appropriate for the Holidays. Here’s … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “Cat and Mouse”

For Fractured Fragment Friday, since I’m currently working on my sixth AND seventh Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire stories, here’s the blurb from the third tale in the series. From “Cat and Mouse”: Major Tom has plans for his leave time: this cat is finally going to get some much-needed R&R with his mates. … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Hi-Ho, The Derry-O

It used to be that traditional fairytales were rather vicious (especially when told by those carefree Brothers Grimm) – through giants and wolves and other things eating people, and heads coming off people’s shoulders, or being poisoned or cursed by witches and the like, children were taught that the world could be a dark and … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Media Sensitivity Training

Wednesday night, within a few miles of where I live, David Sherrard, a Richardson Police officer, was fatally shot while responding to a disturbance in an apartment complex (if you believe in prayer, please pray for him, his family, and his fellow officers.) As the standoff continued between the shooter – barricaded in an apartment … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Signs of Mortality

I still think I’m immortal – at least compared to some. Still… This weekend I took the outside Christmas decorations down and in (our tree will stay up in the house for another couple of weeks, because that’s the way we like it.) I didn’t have to climb on the roof like I did when … Continue reading →