by Kathleen Pellegrino | Apr 7, 2021 | Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life, flowers, Giving thanks
My yearly visitors have arrived. Not all of them quite yet, I’m sorry to say. Analogous to receiving Amazon packages during shut down, when one or two come daily, my arrivals are just as reliable. Crocus in purple appear along with daffodil in yellow to start my...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Mar 25, 2021 | Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life, Giving thanks, Mystery, Writing
Ten days in Surfside, Florida, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Daily walks along the paved trail following the beautiful sandy beach, heavenly weather, exquisite dining, and great shopping presented a most congenial environment for suffering another birthday. And...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Mar 18, 2021 | After the Party, charity, Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life, Giving thanks
We followed the college kids for March vacation, but did so in a more careful environment in Surfside on Florida’s east coast. As a New Englander who summers much of the time at Cape Cod or New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, I had, as usual, architectural...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Mar 3, 2021 | After the Party, charity, Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life, flowers, Giving thanks, holiday hosting, Mystery, News
This author grew up on the South Shore area of Boston, having lived in Dorchester, Quincy, Wollaston, Cohasset, and Milton. Any way you cut it, St. Patrick’s Day was then the holiday of the year following Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and the fourth of July....
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Feb 24, 2021 | After the Party, Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life, flowers, Giving thanks, Mystery, reading, Writing
Towards the end of February in western Massachusetts there in often, actually mostly, snow or the remains of snow on the ground. Some think, by this time, that the concept of snow on the ground is depressing. Now if you go to the Chicopee River, there is ice fishing....
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Feb 10, 2021 | After the Party, Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life, Giving thanks
What to eat after over a year of being jammed up in seclusion and perhaps enjoying unlimited taste of food over common sense moderation in what we eat? No, I am not giving you recipes. Nor are you getting ideas for dinner from me. Nor am I telling you about the great...
Kathleen lives with her husband Joe and their dog Othello midst their large family in Springfield, Massachusetts.
"My love affair with plots, murder, mystery, spies and, in general, with crime novels began at an early age. I read and read – probably have read 2,000 crime novels since then. Even at an early age, I developed my own plots if only to cover up my misdeeds to the chagrin of my family and teachers. Some less creative called it fibbing!
Now I write from the love of plot – of people and their ways –of life – of philosophy – about crime –about the sociopath/psychopath."
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