She Had Me at Meow
On the Friday before Labor Day, 2016, I drove to the Fairfax County Animal Shelter on Ox Road. I had gotten home from Paris two days before. That first night home I crashed into a deep sleep after my nine…Continue Reading →
Archive for 2019
Through His Eyes
London rushes at me. Not like the first time, of course. For I am almost 20 years older and have seen more of the world than I had in 2001 when I first beached up on this shore. Still the…Continue Reading →
The Summer Before the World Changed
In 2001, I won a fiction grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Small victories like winning this grant keep a writer going. After rejoicing, I worried. The $4000 grant was taxpayer money. How could I put it to…Continue Reading →
On this Cinco de Mayo, I say, “Bienvenido!”
It’s twilight in my neighborhood, when I pulled out of my driveway. Across the street, Hispanic men were still loading a huge truck with tree stumps, branches, and other debris from my neighbor’s lawn. Those men had been working there…Continue Reading →
We Mysterians, Readers with Stamina
For the month of February, One More Page Books’ Mystery/Suspense Book Club read Nelson DeMille’s The Charm School, a hefty 757 pages long! At our meeting, I had the nerve to bring up for discussion DeMille’s “Author’s Foreword” as well….Continue Reading →
You Were So Wonderful I Hate to See You Go
Alone and cold: this is the way I spent New Year’s Eve 2017. A few days earlier my furnace had broken, while the weather turned icy. Temperatures plummeted below freezing. Unfortunately my heating company could not install a new furnace…Continue Reading →