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 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 | Oct 20, 2020 | After the Party, charity, Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life, flowers, Giving thanks, glowers
This photo is one from the marketing of my first book in the The Beauregard Mystery Series, “SUNNYSIDE ROAD – PARADISE DISSEMBLING’ published in 2018. the photo shows, in a darkened light, a beautiful street in a suburban neighborhood. The...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Oct 6, 2020 | After the Party, Environment, Experiencing life, flowers, Giving thanks
I spent a weekend at a beautiful location on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee, near Wolfboro, New Hampshire. This 21 mile long by 8/5 mile wide lake is the site of America’s history starting with the English Tories. The town is the oldest vacation site in the...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Oct 16, 2019 | After the Party, charity, Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life, flowers, Giving thanks, glowers
Une petit dejeuner et des fleurs. This combination of my neighbor Trudi’s dahlias and a small breakfast should fortify the soul of any of us. The display is homespun. It gives grace to our ordinary days, but can it by itself give us relief when we are worried or...
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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