Coming soon: Tuesdays with Jay No. 22: Reading Challenge

If you’ve never tried it, a graveyard is a quite peaceful place for a morning walk.

It’s autumn! We’re deep in my favorite season in the northeastern United States, and that means my mental preparing-for-writing time is often on morning walks with the dog. We crunch through the leaves and watch for migrating birds headed to warmer climes as story thoughts weave themselves together.

Some voices, of course, speak louder than others. Ahem-Jay-ahem. So it’s with great pleasure that I say the next...