by JHowatt | Oct 27, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style, News
Pick a Dream. Any Dream. Then Do It. October 10, 2022. Camarillo, California. Why is it that the day a dream finally happens is a day like all the rest? I fixed the dogs their breakfast of Farmer’s Dog mixed with kibble, then I headed outside past the fire pit and... 
by JHowatt | Oct 13, 2022 | Crime Writing
An American Story: Lena and Wilhelm Open the Golden Browne Bakery My last two blogs told the stories of two women: my mother, Katherine, and my mother-in-law, Adria. Kay Gaffney taught seventh and eighth grade for fifty years, then spent one year at the San Diego... 
by JHowatt | Sep 23, 2022 | Life Style
Grandma Sam: “Victory! A Hole in One and A Perfect Apple Pie!” June 1969. Few first meetings have terrified me more than the one I was about to have with my future mother-in-law, Adria Berniece Howatt – wife of Colonel William J. Howatt, recently retired from an... 
by JHowatt | Aug 30, 2022 | Life Style
Grandma Kay: “I Never Meant to be Ordinary.” Lakeside Center, Ventura, California. 2022. I sat across from my one-hundred-and-three-year-old mother, who sat nestled in her favorite chair next to a table where she kept a half-filled glass of water in case she had a... 
by JHowatt | Aug 22, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style
Three Women Who Shaped Me: A Teacher, An Officer’s Wife and A Plucky, German Grandma August 14, 2022. My non-fiction book titled “Jigsaw and Jane: Thirteen Years of Murder and Mayhem with Badge Number One,” which chronicles my thirteen-year crime-solving journey with...