BOOK: April Yellow Moon by Carol Ann Kauffman

 In this fourth installment in the Cat Collier Short Story Mystery Series, a dear, old friend comes up missing, and Cat Collier must scramble to find her before it's too late.

A powerful enemy resurfaces and claims responsibility for a personal attack on Cat's family.
Nola relives Trent's murder.
Carter proposes...again.

Mary Catherine Collier, also known at Cat, started at the bottom of the ladder in the newspaper business. Literally the bottom. She wrote obituaries in the basement of the Heaton Valley Herald in a small town in northeastern Ohio.
But what she really wanted to do with her life was to open her own investigative services business. 
The Cat Collier mysteries have been called a cross between Nancy Drew and Mike Hammer. As the author of the now nine-book series, I've always thought of her more as a cross between Jessica Fletcher and Jessica Jones.

The Cat Collier Mysteries are written as a serial. and is now complete. It is best if you begin with January Black Ice. Characters from the first book pop up in others. Problems... grow.
These books are short, easy reads. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I've enjoyed writing them. 

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/April-Yellow-Moon-Collier-Mystery-ebook/dp/B01N34XEZC

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TV TIME: The Green Knight (Netflix)

 

From Google: 

The Green Knight (2021) is a dark fantasy film directed by David Lowery, starring Dev Patel as Sir Gawain, King Arthur's reckless nephew, who embarks on a quest to confront the mysterious, giant Green Knight. Based on the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the film follows Gawain's journey to prove his honor and courage, facing supernatural challenges like ghosts, giants, and thieves, in a visually stunning but divisive retelling that explores themes of integrity, legacy, and nature. 

  This started off slow. But something about it made me hold on, and I’m glad I did. Dev Patel, who would have never been my choice to play Sir Gawain, did a fantastic job of playing Gawain with heart and soul and a deep devotion to commitment.

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BOOK REVIEW: Mountain Hostage by Gerald L. Guy

 

I have loved these Gus McIntyre books since I read the Book One, Payback - An Eye for an Eye by Gerald L. Guy, where Gus is just a kid, ambushed and all alone.  They are fast-paced, well written, and soaked in local history. 

In Mountain Hostage, Gus McIntyre has grown into a force to be reckoned with in this classic western saga with great characters , an interesting plot steeped in history and folklore, and edge-of-your-seat excitement  as they race to save  the life of one of their own. 

I highly recommend this book as well as all the other Gus McIntyre books in this series. 

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ART: American Glassmaster Dale Chihuly

Dear Gentle Readers,
When we were in Las Vegas, we were lucky enough to view the unusual and breathtaking glass sculpture by one very talented Dale Chihuly at the Bellagio.  Beautiful as a description just doesn't come close.  Once you have seen one of his creations, you are forever changed as to what you think is beautiful and what you believe is possible.  You can recognize one of his pieces wherever you seen it.  I believe Dale Chihuly invented the American Art category of "glass sculpture."

 My mother had a collection of depression glass, so we were aware at a young age the beauty and fragility of colored glass. But Dale Chihuly's work is jaw-dropping.  His pieces are no little footed candy dishes!

Dale Chihuly was born in Tacoma, Washington on September 20, 1941. Reports indicate Dale was not a stellar student, and after graduating Woodrow Wilson High School in 1959, he bounced around a few different colleges, but nothing ignited his fire, so he quit college and went to Florence to study art.
(Lucky for us!!!)

  

 He began glassblowing in 1965 and found his true calling, becoming an internationally recognized glass sculptor.  He worked at the Murano Glass Factory near Venice.  We toured the facility, as that was something I always wanted to do. (Tour, not blow)

Dale's largest permanent collection can be viewed at the Oklahoma city Museum of Art, and visiting it is also on my bucket list.

      

His work and reputation are more prominent in the West.  I was thrilled to see some of his work in Colorado the last time we were there, similar to these beautiful flower pods to the right, with vibrant, opalescent, two and three-toned contrasting colors.

During a visit to England in 1976, Dale was in a very serious auto accident, leaving him with no sight in his left eye and the loss of depth perception.  (That's why he wears an eye patch.)  He once said this disability led him to take on  projects of a much larger scale.  

Many of Dale's prominent pieces were chandeliers.  His initial pieces, around 1992, were modest and lovely, but soon they blossomed into beautiful flowers, and breasts, and snakes, and  all kinds of wild glass creations one wouldn't expect on a chandelier, and it was fabulous.

 In the 1970s, Dale did a series of glass paintings based on Native American designs, aptly titles his Navajo Blanket series.

The documentary, Chihuly Over Venice, was a truly spectacular event, coordinating glass and color and water and timing.  

None of these photos are mine.  I claim nothing here.  Nothing is mine, except the memories.  I looked him up on Wikipedia and Facebook.  I simply wanted to share my limited knowledge of this fabulous glass artist/glass master so my readers would associate the name, Dale Chihuly with these magnificent glass creations.



Links to learn more about him:
www.chihuly.com/  
www.ocmoa.com
He is on Facebook and Wikipedia.

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SCHEDULE: April 6 - 10, 2026

 Monday, April 6 - ART:

American Glassmaster

Dale Chiluly

Tuesday, April 7 - BOOK REVIEW:

Mountain Hostage

by Gerald L. Guy

Wednesday, April 8 - INTERVIEW:

Urban Fantasy Author

Spencer Hixon

Thursday, April 9 - TV TIME:

The Green Knight

(Netflix)

Friday, April 10 - BOOK:

April Yellow Moon

By Carol Ann Kauffman

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