Musings

February 25, 2025    It's publication day for Spirits Adopted , Daisy Gumm Majesty Rotondo's twentieth adventure! Lots of things happen...

February 2025 Okay. So far 2025 sucks.  Not only am I living here in Weldon, the middle of nowhere, but I still have no dogs and no...

Peeking around the corner to see if it’s safe to step out into the new year. Naw. Think I’ll wait in my corner for another little while....

A couple of people noticed that I didn’t send out a November newsletter. There are a few really good reasons for this omission. Well,...

Daisy’s getting new clothes! It’s true. What’s more, she didn’t have to make them herself. My publisher, ePW (the only publisher ever to...

Probably the first thing I should mention is that Celluloid Angels , Mercy Allcutt’s ninth foray into the world of cozy historical...

Oh boy, another month has zipped by. July turned out to be better than most of the other months in 2024. As I’m writing this newsletter...

I’ll start with some good news. Just got the cover art for Celluloid Angels and I like it a lot.

Don’t know if anyone noticed, but I didn’t send out a newsletter in April. That’s because everything fell apart in April. I mean,...

How’d it get to be March already? It really doesn’t seem fair that the older one gets, the faster the years fly by. I remember being a...

February 2024 The best thing to happen so far in 2024 is a short visit by my younger grandson, Riki. He was only here overnight, but I...

May it be no worse than 2023, which pretty much sucked. I must say, however, that 2023 had its good moments. For one thing, my almost...

Another year has come and is darned near gone. Years seem to fly by faster the older I get. 2024 should be about 20 minutes long. It’s...

It’s November! At the end of this month, I will be 78 years old. I don’t know how that happened so fast, and I resent the heck out of it....

Okay, so my May newsletter is late. There are two really good reasons for that. The first reason is that I came down with Covid. No idea...