She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible...

February is the cruelest month in western Oregon.

Even in death, her mother was winning.

When your ship comes in, don’t be in the bathroom with your pants around your ankles.” quoted by Frank McNichols, father of Rose McNichols in A Nose for Hanky Panky, a Granite Cove Mystery

If you can get to be you, why can’t I get to be me?

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth – and get loads of...

What I’ve always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can...

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

Alma idly wondered if he’d blow his nose, too.He did. Twice. He made it honk, the sound reminding Alma of Harpo squeezing his bulb horn.Isabel darted a look at Alma, giving her the don’t-you-dare-giggle squint.Alma...

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless – the action, indifferent.

Sheriff Fox was running his fingers through his thin hair. In a few short years, he’d look bald as a peeled apple. The Snoop sisters and their sidekick, the town’s bag lady no less, had...

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

Petey Samson gave the ladies an over-the-shoulder glance. He realized no doggie treat was forthcoming, even from Isabel who was usually the soft mark to hit up. He scratched his front claws to re-attack the...

Aurora, you’re a child, live like one, don’t act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.