Lisa R. Howeler's Blog, page 21
February 23, 2025
Sunday Bookends: The Get Rid of Hiccups Trick, what I thought of the Miss Marple Short Stories, and a Paris movie marathon being planned
It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, what the rest of the family and I have been reading and watching, and what I’ve been writing. Some weeks I share what I am listening to. Throughout my childhood and teenage years my family and I would visit my mom’s side of the …
February 22, 2025
Saturday Afternoon Chat: Remembering the times I had to drive in the snow and hated it
This week we were surprised by snow and unfortunately it wasn’t a pleasant surprise since I was driving in it at the time. I thought it was merely going to be flurries, but oh no…it started sticking. Driving with snow on the road? No. that’s not something I do. Like ever anymore. But there I …
February 21, 2025
Fiction Friday: Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing Chapters 7 and 8
Welcome to a serial fiction series of my book Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing, a light cozy mystery. You will be able to read chapters of this book each Friday. You can also find a list of chapters HERE. If you don’t want to wait for the next installment or click through each chapter, and would …
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February 20, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot: Come Link Up With Us!
Welcome to the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot where we offer a place for bloggers to link up and get a fresh set of eyes on their posts. We also feature one blog a week, letting our readers know about the blog and providing a link so readers can learn more about them. Look for the …
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Winter of Fairbanks: Sinbad the Sailor. Not even my crush on Fairbanks Jr. could get me through this one.
This week for Winter of Fairbanks Jr. I watched Sinbad the Sailor. Oh my, readers. I watched this one with a face you make after you’ve taken gross tasting medicine. Not even my crush on Fairbanks Jr. could get me through this one. What was I even thinking? I really should have read up on …
February 19, 2025
Classic movie impressions: The Stranger (1946)
A few weeks ago, my husband suggested we watch an Orson Welles movie. Since I’ve liked other movies by and starring Orson, I agreed to it. The Stranger was released in 1946 and tells the story of a war crimes investigator who tracks a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a small Connecticut town. Welles both directed …
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February 18, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 books I never reviewed on my blog or social media
|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today’s prompt is: 10 Books I Never Reviewed (Share the titles of books you never reviewed on your blog/tiktok/insta/etc. and if you liked them or not!) This one was hard for me because I have actually reviewed most of the books I have read in …
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February 16, 2025
Sunday Bookends: More cold weather and switching back and forth between books
It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, what the rest of the family and I have been reading and watching, and what I’ve been writing. Some weeks I share what I am listening to. The weather is so cold in our area that we are doing our best to conserve heating …
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February 15, 2025
Saturday Afternoon Chat: Small town newspapers and small town vets
Tuesday morning, I watched my neighbor drive by my house and less than two minutes later drive back again. He and his wife run our little county newspaper and Tuesdays are their publication day. In a few minutes, he came back again with his white newspaper van (which we jokingly call the kidnapper van). I’m …
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February 14, 2025
Fiction Friday: Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing Chapter 5 and 6
Welcome to a serial fiction series of my book Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing, a light cozy mystery. You will be able to read chapters of this book each Friday. You can also find a list of chapters HERE. If you don’t want to wait for the next installment or click through each chapter, and would …
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