Poem: Dog in the Snow

Introduction:This is our second winter in our new home. I have lived in many places throughout D.C. and Pennsylvania, but this area gets the most snow I have ever seen. We are in a very isolated and picturesque town in the Poconos mountains. It's so snowy here that the neighboring town of Honesdale is the…

On Walking the Dog: A Poem

Introduction: My New Year's Resolution has been to write more. I'm hoping to finish a novel this year -- I've never completed a lengthy work of fiction before. But when I sit down to write, I keep ending up with poems. Instead of fighting it, I'm giving thanks that God has given me any words…

Book Review: Tried Three Times: The Karemendi Story by Celeste Yost (Crime Fiction, Based on a true story)

Tried Three Times: The Karemendi Story is a novel based on real events. The author combines her own imagination with newspaper accounts and court transcripts to tell the story of how three-year-old Matthew Karemendi was murdered by his mother, Margaret Karemendi, and her lover, Roy Lockard, in Altoona, Pennsylvania on April 21, 1936.