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Whose Purse Is This?

If you’ve already read The Water Cure, you already know … as well as how she acquired it, its significance to her, and perhaps why she continues to use this late-1880s hand-crocheted purse with the satin liner decades later.

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A First Review!

The wife of a friend of mine — I’ve never met her — has read all three of The “People of the Water” Cycle novels and has written the first review of the series on its Amazon page. And it’s … Continue reading

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Did Spring Waters Actually Heal People?

The characters in my novel series encounter a world where many, many people seem to be healed by the spring waters of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Doctors of the time certified the claims; they were spoken of in newspaper accounts and … Continue reading

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Acknowledgments

I messaged my friends at Mud Street Cafe and Mud Street Annex to let them know how much I appreciate their hospitality while I was clicking away on the Kensington keyboard of my little old iPad Mini 2, writing drafts … Continue reading

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Sextants in Space

Around the time I was writing the introductory chapter to The Water Cure — about an astronaut using a sextant to get the spacecraft’s position in orbit — there were astronauts trying it again in the International Space Station. It … Continue reading

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The ‘People of the Water’ Cycle

I began writing a series of novels in 2018 from a story idea I had simmering on the back burners of my mind for about 30 years, and self-published them on Amazon in December, 2021. They’re perhaps best classified as … Continue reading

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