Tag: writing

• Organizing My Life: Writing, Publishing, and Personal Resolutions

  December 30, 2025

  General, On my mind, Writing – Fiction

  books, fiction, publishing, reading, writing

  We are on the eve of New Year’s Eve. So, perhaps it’s not too early to be looking ahead. On New Year’s Day, I will kick off the year right, with black-eyed peas, cabbage, and a few friends. And lots of wine. Having retired for the second time, I am looking forward to focusing on…

• Arming Teachers: A Controversial Solution

  December 18, 2025

  On my mind

  #ArmingTeachers, #Guns, #SchoolShootings, education, learning, teachers, teaching, writing

  One of my many roles/jobs has been as a teacher in secondary education. For many years I taught theater classes and film appreciation courses for U of H-Downtown and various campuses of Lone Star College system. I was happiest in a classroom but became a more than competent distance-learning instructor. A few years ago, I…

• Reading Louise Penney’s ‘A Great Reckoning’

  October 3, 2016

  General, Writing – Fiction

  detective, fiction, writing

  As you know, when not writing you need to be reading. I try to read the spectrum of mystery fiction. But I have my favorites. This weekend I got to read the much anticipated twelfth book in Louise Penney’s series about former Chief Inspector Gamache.  It did not disappoint. On back-order for several months, it arrived as I…

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  Cue the Murder

  October 1, 2016

  Writing – Fiction

  Darcy, detective, fiction, writing

  I looked into grey-blue eyes and the concerned face of a blondish man in his late thirties or early forties. “Are you OK? Do you need a lift?”