Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore My rating: 5 of 5 starsNow I’ve read the entire three-book series and I can’t choose a favorite. It’s probably a tie between book #3, Portrait of a Scotsman and book #1 Bringing Down the Duke, but book #2, A Rogue of One’s Own is a close second. […]
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Out There Again
I went out into the wide world and met a friend for lunch. Armed with my mask, socially distancing, hand sanitizer, and a fully efficacious vaccination. Guess what? It felt good. It felt close to normal. Maybe not completely normal, but closer than I’ve been in a good long while. I wondered if I could […]
Politics Makes Old People Crazy
My grandfather used to pay his taxes in Roosevelt dimes. And he was particular about pronouncing the name “ruse-a-velt” because he believed it was a smear on the man he blamed for his higher taxes. Although Franklin Roosevelt didn’t institute income taxes, he did start graduated taxes brackets where the wealthier paid more than others. […]
The Lockdown Lowdown
First, I stopped wearing my watch. Why not? I was home all day. I have a grandmother clock that bongs, I have clocks on my stove, TV, DVD player, laptop, and phone. Then, I stopped wearing shoes. I keep a pair handy, but mostly I’m in socks and slippers. COVID-19 is turning my life into […]
The Scene That Wasn’t
NOTE: The following scene from WHEN ALICE PLAYED THE LOTTERY just hit the editing room floor. It describes the main character, Alice, a widowed receptionist at a failing startup in Silicon Valley, meeting the new VP. She is a technology-challenged receptionist who runs the company lottery pool. But what high-tech worker hasn’t been here? The […]
Thanks for the Smile
DATELINE, CALIFORNIA, April 10, 2020 Today, I stood in a long line outside the grocery store, each person heeding the marks to stay six feet apart as they waited to enter. A very old man stood in front of me. May 85 or so, bent forward from age and pulling a rolling cart behind him. […]
Overheard on a Train
An excerpt from A PRIMROSE IN NOVEMBER The couple managed to squeeze into a small seat on the train just inside the door beneath the fire extinguisher. Across from them sat older three ladies, returning home from a day’s shopping in Portsmouth. Their numerous, multicolored bags crowded the overhead rack. They contained the day’s bounty […]
The Old Wooden Bench
There used to be an old wooden bench by the side of the road near Greenfield, California. Behind it lay a field of lettuce with head after head of leafy green pearls strung in perfectly straight strands. The rows spread wide at the road, like an open fan, and joined at a point in the […]
Between Corduroy and Tourmaline – A Short Story
In its long journey up from the center of the Earth, the gemstone tourmaline passes over a rainbow, assumes its colors, and creates the Aurora Borealis, or so the legend says. Outside a pub near Donegal Square in downtown Belfast, Liam looked up at the sky and waited for the legend to manifest. The […]
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