by JHowatt | Sep 18, 2024 | Life Style
What Do You Do with An Idea? September 9, 2024. This blog will be shorter than any blog, but there’s a reason. I’m headed to Florence for two weeks with a good friend to revisit a city we both traveled to a few years ago for reasons neither of us have verbalized or... 
by JHowatt | Aug 26, 2024 | Crime Writing
The Gold Complex Fire July 22, 2:00 PM: Jim and I stepped onto our backyard deck and into the panoramic view of the Feather River below, which dazzled and danced in the afternoon sunshine. Our five dogs followed. “Look at that blue-blue sky,” I leaned against the... 
by JHowatt | Jul 26, 2024 | Life Style
Escape to Frog Land: Geese in a Pond, Cattle Grazing in a Field and Deer Behind a Tree July 2024. Morning. I’d been watching the army of construction workers wearing grimy t-shirts, faded jeans, and well-worn tennis shoes for going on a year buzz and build a... 
by JHowatt | Nov 30, 2023 | Crime Writing
The Power of a Hunch: Don’t Give up on a Disease or a Dream On October 1, 2021, I read an article in the Washington Post by Carolyn Y. Johnson titled: A Scientific Hunch. Then Silence. Until the World Needed a Lifesaving Vaccine.” I pulled the article closer and... 
by JHowatt | Nov 17, 2023 | Crime Writing
The Wise Person Spoke Augusta State University. Augusta, Georgia. Counseling Center, May 1999. I stashed my purse on the floor and opened my notebook prepared to write notes on Dr. Bonnie Blanton’s lecture: Career Development Theory and Practice. Outside, the first...