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 | Dec 21, 2021 | Life Style
The Winnebago Vacation, Wine by the River, and a Magic Moment October 1985. I’d never ridden in a Class A Winnebago. While our thirteen-hour drive on the never-ending stretch of the I-5 reinforced my preference for airplanes, Ryan and Jeff thought riding in a... 
by JHowatt | Sep 17, 2021 | Life Style
Emily for Mayor! June 2019. The minute the announcement appeared in our local paper, I knew the perfect candidate for Mayor of the Springville Dog Park was living with us: a black and white Havanese Terrier named Emily who we rescued from a shelter in Thousand Oaks...