by Kathleen Pellegrino | Jun 26, 2019 | After the Party, Endurance, Experiencing life, flowers, Giving thanks
Today I heard several heartbreaking stories from friends and former relatives by marriage. In every case, drugs or alcohol was involved. All the stories ended in death. Each, untimely, and in these cases, medically unnecessary deaths, that left waves of sorrow for...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Jun 19, 2019 | After the Party, Endurance, Experiencing life, flowers, Giving thanks, Gossip, holiday hosting
What an exciting weekend I just survived. Starting with dinner with friends on Friday evening; on Saturday buying mulch from the local hardware store, tripping off to the bank, lovingly attending a family wedding shower for Ariel Jocelyn, welcoming a visitor, Attorney...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Jun 11, 2019 | After the Party, Endurance, Experiencing life, Giving thanks, Gossip, Mystery, News, reading, Writing
I was with friends yesterday when the television news announced the crash of a helicopter on the roof, and resulting fire, of a mid-Manhattan high rise on Seventh Avenue; and that the pilot died. We all breathed-in sharply and were blindsided again; all made differing...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Jun 5, 2019 | After the Party, Endurance, Experiencing life, Giving thanks
On June 5, 1944, Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day “Full victory – nothing else” to paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division at the Royal Air Force base in Greenham Common, England, three hours before the men board...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | May 29, 2019 | After the Party, Endurance, Experiencing life, Giving thanks, Gossip, holiday hosting
I have been here before. You probably have, also. After five days of indolent sitting by our beach on Cape Cod Bay on a protected deck with masses of company mostly comprised of young people in their twenties, I must now face the reality of work and normal living. Our...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | May 21, 2019 | After the Party, Endurance, Experiencing life, flowers, Giving thanks, Gossip, Mystery, reading
I traveled the area today looking for ‘what to plant’ around my home. It is a mystery, though nothing to do with murder, how after I see the same plants repeatedly in different garden centers, I am better able to visualize their import for my garden....
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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