I wrote this blog after my first visit to England. Many of the sights mentioned here wind up in my books, sometimes with different names. Can you pick them out? *** I don’t know why, but when I dreamed of visiting England, the Cotswolds were always a must-see. With that goal in mind, we spent […]
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I penned these words in 2016 as I was pulling together my first book—a collection of my columns. Now that I write for two newspapers and have published several books, these words ring truer than ever. Simply put, I live to write–whether it’s a newspaper column, a blog, or a book. My day is not
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Originally published in the Dunwoody Crier If you follow my columns, you had to know it wouldn’t be long before I returned to British mysteries. I don’t consciously say to myself, “It’s time to return to England,” but somehow that’s what happens. Once again, I can’t recall where I heard about these two, but I’m
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I’m an avid reader—someone who reads every night and never goes anywhere without a book. Heaven forbid I’d be stuck somewhere without one. I can still recall with horror the time I downloaded a book to a new tablet for a business trip, and the tablet froze up on the first leg of the journey.
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This post was first published as a newspaper column in 2014 This Mother’s Day will be different for me as it marks the first one without my mother, who passed away in early April. I won’t be searching for the perfect card, preparing a Mother’s Day dinner or making plans with my sisters to take
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Beyond planning my wardrobe for a trip, I can’t think of anything more important than ensuring I have plenty of reading material. It won’t belong before I arrive in Athens, Greece and begin the Greek Odyssey cruise which hugs the coast of Greece and visits Santorini and Crete. Because I don’t take paperbacks on overseas
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The WSJ posed the question: Who is your favorite fictional detective? They printed five answers, and I’m not sure any of them would have made my list. Perhaps there are just too many from which to choose especially for someone like me who mostly reads mysteries. Not that I need any books to add to
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When you read my books, you’ll notice I’m a Billy Joel fan. I saw him long ago with Elton John at the Omni in Atlanta, and I got reacquainted with his music a few years ago when I listened to the Billy Joel station on SiriusXM on a road trip to the mountains—both up and
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