Happy Birthday, Agent K

So guess who was Al Gore’s roommate at Harvard? Yep, I’m talking about the amazing Tommy Lee Jones. He played defensive guard on Harvard’s undefeated football team in 1968 and graduated from the Ivy League school with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1969. Tommy Lee...

Name that TV show!

With the start to the new season still a few weeks away, I’m waxing nostalgic about “the good old days” of the television classics. I’m definitely a TV Baby, raised on the premier invention of the 1950s. So here’s a trivia question for you: What television show, the...

Shrimp and Grits

While I took plenty of the “normal” tourist-type photos in and of Nashville, I also recorded things that just caught my attention for one reason or another. Things I might use later in a book. Things that sometimes make me shake my head and worry about my sanity....

Hostess with the Mostess

Two years ago, I wrote a “fan email” to Nashville mystery writer Kay Elam. I had read a guest blog she’d written defining cozy mysteries on another writer’s website, and I wanted to thank her for enlightening me. Until then, I’d had no idea what a “cozy mystery” was,...

Killer Nashville

I just returned from a few days rubbing elbows with a fabulous number of mystery writers at the annual Killer Nashville writers’ conference. Every mystery sub-genre was represented, including thrillers, suspense, psycho-serial killers, medical mysteries, historical,...