Oopsie!
I made a big boo-boo on my Fourth Wing post...making it sound like I finished ALL BUT ONE of the books I started, when it was just the opposite. Re-read the new opening paragraph on the site and you'll see what REALLY happened!
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Thirteen Things I Learned On Jury Duty
(This was originally published on Big List Energy at Medium.com) I recently served on a jury for a murder trial. Though I learned a lot of stuff during the trial about DNA evidence, tracing cell phones, and determining time of death (don’t believe anything a TV medical examiner
The Twenty Third Book of 2026: Slow Horses, by Mick Herron
Started 7/21/26, Finished 7/24/26 If I really enjoy a book, I’m likely to want to read it again, and Mick Herron’s espionage story Slow Horses has surfaced from the murky depths of my To Be Read pile for a fresh look, five years later.
The Twenty Second Book of 2026: A Secret Vice, by J.R.R. Tolkien, Dimitra Fini and Andrew Higgins
Started 7/13/26, Finished 7/18/26 I have a lot of respect for Christopher Tolkien. The son of ridiculously famous author J.R.R. Tolkien, he spent most of his adult life going through his father’s works and trying to make sense of the embryonic notes and
GUILTY! My time on jury duty
This is my memoir of serving on a jury in King County, Washington, in June and July 2026. I'm not attempting to make any particular points; I wrote it mostly as a record of an interesting experience. The Crime This was a murder case. The victim, a Black