Welcome, 2016!

Welcome, 2016!

2015 is going out on a decidedly easier note for me than it came in on. But many of my friends are not so lucky. To anyone who’s feeling the pain right now, I offer a shoulder and an ear and anything else I have that you need. This time last year, I was leaning...

Thoughts After Midnight

We like to believe that tales of haunting were the product of gullible and overwrought Victorian imaginations, that we are too sensible, too intelligent for such fancies. And it is certainly true that  stories of visitations from the dead have decreased in the...
Cranberry Apple Butter

Cranberry Apple Butter

I love cranberries. LOVE THEM. There’s pretty much nothing you can do to a cranberry that I won’t eat. Years ago, I started making cranberry applesauce for a friend who was diagnosed with diabetes. She couldn’t have sugar, but she wanted something to...
Wedded to the Soul Mate?

Wedded to the Soul Mate?

Last night I was re-reading Madam, Will You Talk?, which I haven’t read in, oh, probably ten years. As happens (to me, at least), although I remembered the main plot, there were plenty of things I’d forgotten. One of them is that our heroine, Charity, lost...