Tag: memoirs
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My Father, the Story Thief
With stories, my dad was like a magpie. Anything flashy he took. Often he polished them to his own particular shine, too. For example, if you climb up our family tree on Daddy’s side far enough, way back to the 1760’s and then hop over to a stubby branch that started in 1763 in Lancaster…
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The Registered Nurse
About a quarter of the way into January Jinx, the first book in my calendar mystery series, my heroine Minty Wilcox and the mysterious Daniel Price, who boards at her house, visit a cigar factory in the West Bottoms of Kansas City. It’s a very short scene in which “the deftness of the young…