by Rhiannon Paine | Jun 30, 2015 | General, Signs of the Times
“The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled late Monday that the National Security Agency may temporarily resume its once-secret program that systematically collects records of Americans’ domestic phone calls in bulk.” – New York Times, June 30, 2015 [Dials the...
by Rhiannon Paine | May 9, 2015 | General, Once Upon a Time
My car passed a beat-up VW bus with a JEFFERSON AIRPLANE LOVES YOU bumper sticker and the hippie at the wheel flashed me a peace sign. How had he recognized me as a fellow member of the tribe? By my car’s ban-the-bomb decal, probably, or my tent of long frizzy hair....
by Rhiannon Paine | Apr 7, 2015 | Animal Crackers, General, Just for Fun
“Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.” – Henry Beston I grew up in a pet-less household, and despite reading Black Beauty, Dr. Doolittle, and Beatrix Potter, I regarded animals as...
by Rhiannon Paine | Mar 3, 2015 | General, Once Upon a Time
I’ve traveled on four continents, lived in England and Japan, and gone to sea with the British Merchant Navy. But wherever I am, when I close my eyes against the sun on a hot summer’s day, I’m lying on a front lawn in San Fernando, California. The grass smells...
by Rhiannon Paine | Jan 16, 2015 | General, It's a Mystery, Just for Fun
If society ever decides to imprison people based on their search-engine inquiries, we mystery writers will be in trouble. It is our unpleasant habit to require that our characters be murdered in ingenious ways, and since we’re not ingenious murderers, we have to...
