Memories . . .

Nov 14, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town

Back to my “murder” book, I am struck by how many times I mention that this event or that conversation occurred two, or three, or more years before. Usually the reason this is mentioned is simply because the passage of time colors our perception of events....

Hearsay and Corroboration

Nov 2, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town

A perusal of the almost fifty thousand words in my unfinished narrative of the Stacey Burns murder case, Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns shows repeated use of the word, corroboration. In many instances, it is linked to another word, hearsay....

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Oct 28, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town

Here are the first two paragraphs on page 11 of Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns. Since I’ve been told (way too often) that the investigation into Stacey’s murder is active and ongoing and any steps I might take to uncover anything...

Oasis Journal

Oct 26, 2017 | The Writing Process|Works in Progress

I’m happy to announce that two of my short pieces were selected to be published in the Oasis Journal-2017, which was just released. One of my Green Valley Writers Forum colleagues, Bonnie Papenfuss, also had a very touching and poignant poem included in this 560...

Relections of Trust

Oct 22, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town|Uncategorized

Our pastor this morning used the phrase “failure to trust” as a lynchpin in his sermon. I started thinking about how much my trust in so many things has eroded. His reference, of course, was to the trust we have or do not have in God. My thought drifted to...