First, I love ’em. Most people groan and at least profess contempt when they hear one. I laugh. So it threatens to trigger my depressive tendencies when I see the new Red Lobster commercials which end with someone involved in the restaurant saying, “I sea…

Busy as a beaver today. Here are all the logs I cut. Yeah, right. The only logs I saw are metaphorical when I snore. WRITING PROMPT: What would your main character look for in a woodpile? What would he or she find instead? MA

I first met John Desjarlais at Magna cum Murder a couple of years ago. I was fascinated with his protagonist and with all the research he had done. He said, for instance, that he knew way more about women’s shoes than he ought to. It…