by JHowatt | Mar 21, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style
Momdog and Grandma Kay meet Veronica and Igor March 1999. The gloomy, grey sky seemed to follow my laborious trek to the stalled baggage claim carousel. Grandma Kay – always the efficient traveler who once hailed a New York cab driver with the flourish and theatrics... 
by JHowatt | Feb 18, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style
Momdog Frets while Grandma Kay Sleeps: From San Diego to Russia. March 1999. When I learned Grandma Kay had booked our flight on the Russian airline, Aeroflot, my stomach twisted into a knot. For good reason. Back in the day when I was an airline stewardess, I’d... 
by JHowatt | Jan 29, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style
San Diego to St. Petersburg with Grandma Kay January 24, 2021. I read the headline in Yahoo News: “Ukrainians to Grapple with Warnings That Russian Invasion is Imminent.” Russia! Russia! Russia! Headlines getting worse. Will Putin invade Ukraine? What does this... 
by JHowatt | Jan 21, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style
Jigsaw and Jane: How Fishing Got Us Hooked on Each Other This blog isn’t about fishing, really. It isn’t about who caught the largest fish, or the fish that weighed the most, or the fish that put up the biggest fight, or the fish that won the “Fish of the Day”... 
by JHowatt | Nov 19, 2021 | Crime Writing
Vacation of a lifetime–Chapter 2 Camarillo, California. I stepped into our vacation house on wheels and marveled at how the interior of this motorhome resembled a small apartment unit: compact kitchen, two sofas that doubled as beds, another single bed overhead,... 
by JHowatt | Oct 22, 2021 | Crime Writing
Vacation of a Lifetime! Jane’s Family Visits Jigsaw’s Retreat Los Angeles, California. St. John and I sat at our usual booth at Denny’s with our usual combo of iced tea for him, black coffee for me trying to create a rough draft for a chapter outline. But the going...