Category Archives: Uncategorized

Yes, indeed — a reading. Hopkins Library is located at 22 11th Ave. N. in Hopkins, MN 55343 at 6:30 pm. It’s easy to get there from Excelsior Boulevard — just turn North at 11th Avenue and go a couple … Continue reading →

I bet you’re wondering where I went and what I’ve been doing. I’m in a nursing home called Golden Living in St. Louis Park, MN. I’m very slowly recovering from a massive knee infection. I’ve lost a lot of weight … Continue reading →

Our cat Panzi has died. She’d been doing poorly for months, then went into in a steep decline and then just hung there for nearly a week, not eating, not drinking, only once in a while making odd crying sounds … Continue reading →

I’ve been fired. That is, my publisher (now a part of a larger publisher) has decided not to offer me any more contracts to write mysteries for them. This came out of the blue, and I’m still trembling from the … Continue reading →

I have agreed to sit in a booth in Excelsior on September 19 from 9 am to 11 am in honor of Apple Days, an annual celebration. The booth will be run by Excelsior Bay Books, one of my favorite … Continue reading →

Don’t talk to me of solemn days In autumn’s time of splendor, Because the sun shows fewer rays, And these grow slant and slender. Why, it’s the climax of the year,— The highest time of living!— Till naturally its bursting … Continue reading →

I knew the road was bright and fair Or once it seemed to be, But it has changed so much of late, It has few charms for me. – From the epitaph of Roswell Stowell, who died in 1875, aged … Continue reading →

When I began writing novels, I named the first one Unforgiving Minutes, and quoted the last four lines of “If” at the start (“If you can fill the unforgiving minute . . .”).  I sold my second novel first, but … Continue reading →

Well, friends, I had to pull an all-nighter. But the manuscript for Knit Your Own Murder went off to my editor this morning, July 14th, 2015. That’s Bastille Day, the day when the French Revolution set the prisoners in the … Continue reading →

Saturday, August 8, 3:00 p.m. — I’ll be at the Barnes and Noble bookstore in Saint Cloud, MN. Address is 3940 Division Street St. Cloud, MN 56301. Phone, 320-251-453