My editor has given me excellent notes on "Free For All," my second book. She is always spot on with her suggestions. The corrections and re-writes are going well, but I like to keep the encouraging notes until the very lasts time I hit "accept." It's good for my soul and keeps me inspired. This is my favorite one.

Jonathan Creek is a British mystery series that ran from 1997 to 2014 with only 32 episodes. There’s a mystery right there. Seventeen years and only 32 episodes? The series stared Alan Davies as Jonathan Creek and Caroline Quentin as Maddie Magellan. Notice the bag. Maddie and I had the same Coach purse for probably the same 17 years. I called it the feed bag (Coach called the Bucket Bag). It was heavy leather, which at the time I loved, and was very deep with no pockets so i

This is a double Throw Back Thursday. Lynn and I were watching a Murder She Wrote (throwback #1) where the actor Eric Braeden was playing a villain, and Lynn told me a story of watching the character Braeden played, Victor Newman, on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (throwback #2). Victor arrived in Genoa City, Wisconsin in 1980. Viewers loved to hate Victor and whenever he was in a scene, Lynn would turn to her Aunt Mickey and say, “A man whose accent knows no coun