Cats, Roses...and Books!

My Dad's Guitar Ever since I was a young girl, music has made a difference in my life.  Until I was five, my parents and I lived...

In May I wrote about positive ways to navigate Mother's Day if your mom had passed on.  Father's Day is the matching holiday t...

                                           Meet Karen Rose Smith's Sleuth Writing the first book in my mystery series has been chal...

This has been a week when color exploded in the garden.  Snapdragons are a beautiful pink splash as are poppies waving in the b...

I love holidays, and Mother's Day was always one of my favorites.  My mother passed on years ago. Since then, a deep-down ache would...

May Day! What's new in the garden this week? Since we've had such a warm winter and spring, there is already so much color in th...

Hi, everyone.  I was away for almost a week and when I returned...  Oh, my how everything had grown. Outside the bluebells opened and the ...