Why do I write murder mysteries and why choose 'cozy' murder mysteries? The answer has to do with the quest for the holy grail and my...

The Sacred Well Murders by Susan Rowland Mary Wandwalker, a novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young American, Rhiannon, to the...

Jung & Art: New Course wholly online at a time of your own choosing! Jung identified the common predicament of the artist (here standing...

While the erotic body can be an organ of knowing for the detective as we will see, the body is also the primal site of the mystery. In...

The pandemic is alchemy on a collective and individual scale. We can be part of curing ourselves and the world.

Self-isolating is not Self Isolation

Hestia, goddess of hearth and home, might appear an unlikely divinity for the mystery’s quest for truth. In the Greek pantheon, Hestia is...

The stories and images clustering around the goddess Artemis or Diana, avatar of the moon, re-appear in the imaginative world of the...

Something feels stale about the New Year’s resolutions in this new decade: 2020. It think it is my history of failing to keep them! In...

The Last Christmas (2019) movie has had poor reviews. So have many artistic works that become beloved. I loved this movie and think it...

Last week I found my first mention of Brexit in Alice Boatright’s What Child is This? An Ellie Kent mystery set at Christmas complete...

So I am the apprentice, but there is still “Mystery Writer” and “spellbook” to pars. Where I am from (UK), “mystery” is less used to...

This is one of the experiments in my blog with the tongue firmly in the side of the mouth title. I am the Mystery Writer’s apprentice....