What’s Your Personality Type?

March 17, 2017 by - 2 Comments

    Have you ever taken a Myers-Briggs Personality Test? The test used to be a complete mystery to me, administered by therapists and researchers. But with the Great God Internet, it’s now available to anyone who wants to do a bit of self-psychoanalysis and personality study often for free, or for just a few …Read More

Thank You, I’m Flattered

March 15, 2017 by - 4 Comments

      Doesn’t flattery crack you up? The other day I went to my favorite skin care store, L’Occitane (said Lox-Ee-Tahn, according to their website), to resupply my daily, ridiculously expensive regimen. The regimen is one of my luxuries/vices. I don’t drink, smoke, or shop for fun–we all have to indulge in something, right? …Read More

Change is Hard, Says Barbie

March 13, 2017 by - 4 Comments

  Once upon a time, I imagined I was a patient person, but it really was just my imagination. I’m impulsive. I want things now, now, now. Particularly I want to be able to change my life, change my circumstances, change my appearance, or change my career to respond to any desire I might have. …Read More

Saturday, 11 March 2017

March 11, 2017 by - 5 Comments
Every Saturday, Rain or Shine

  I’ve been doing a lot of listening this week–books and podcasts, mostly. And I’m searching for a dress to wear to the Edgar awards at the end of April. I’ll post links each Saturday until I find one. Let me know what you think… _______ Give it a listen: Meet Me in Atlantis, by …Read More

Baseless Fears? The Kid in Me Says Otherwise.

March 10, 2017 by -

One of the reasons I write stories with crimes in them is that I have, in my life, been afraid of many things. Fears evolve: the things that frighten us when we are children often turn out to not have been a big deal at all. Children are a small presence in a big, alarming …Read More

STONER by John Williams

March 8, 2017 by - 2 Comments

(This is a repost from 2013, but this book is oh, so good. Definitely worth a read. Come visit me at the Kill Zone blog today. My Wednesday blog is Are Words Sticks and Stones After All?) The writer John Edward Williams has been dead since 1994, but I am apologizing to him anyway. Months ago, …Read More

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