5 Stars: Reader’s CafĂ©: “The relationship between Vespa and Guy is subtle yet passionate-the characters are determined and dynamic. A fast paced, yet sweet storyline of love and determination, betrayal and vengeance.”
Monday, July 7, 2025
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
A Cowboy's Fate and a chance to win an Amazon gift card.
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My story, A Cowboy's Fate, is featured today (6-29). My narrator (the much sought after Richard L. Walton) nails the characters and I’m so proud of how it turned out.
A Cowboy's Fate received 5 Stars from N.N.Light, Net Galley, and Still Moments Magazine, and is the winner of the Maple Leaf Award. So please stop by, order your copy and sign up for a chance at an Amazon gift card.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Alfred Packer, an infamous name our Colorado history

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Thursday, June 19, 2025
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A mysterious letter and the drop-dead handsome town marshal, are the last things Mariah expects to find making rounds as a midwife.
Virgil Kincaid loved a woman once—after she broke his heart, he spent three years in prison. Women can’t be trusted, no matter how good they look. He’s sworn off relationships in favor of Saturday night poker games.
And then there were his eyes. Grey as the sky in winter, full of secrets, revealing nothing. Virgil had been the town Marshal for nearly three years, yet no one knew where he’d come from or how long he intended to stay. What would it take to light a fire in those eyes and put settling down in his thoughts?
Her gaze drifted lower and latched onto the front of his denim trousers. A picture of what he might look like naked skittered across her mind and her cheeks grew hot at the imagining.
“You done lookin?” he asked.
Her gaze snapped up to meet his and the heat of humiliation replaced the lustful warmth.
“Yes,” she babbled, “there doesn’t seem to be anything of interest here.”
“Really?” he challenged, with a cocky grin and a raised brow.
He stepped closer and stood so near she could smell the man sent of him as she tried to ratchet her breathing down to a more normal rate.
“You’re a very unusual woman, Miss McAllister.”
“Is that good or bad?” she dared to ask.
“I’m not sure yet.”
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Thursday, May 29, 2025
The Fort in Morrison Colorado
The Fort restaurant, in Morrison, Colorado, opened for business in February 1963. But the story of how it got there started a few years before.
In 1961, Elizabeth Arnold decided she wanted to raise her children outside the city. As she was reading a book about Bents Fort, she got the idea to make it an "adobe castle". They hired William Lumpkins, a top architect in adobe construction from Santa Fe, and using 80,000 mud and straw bricks, weighing 40 pounds each, the main building evolved. When the budget was surpassed, the idea for using part of the structure for a restaurant was suggested and The Fort restaurant opened for business.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
The cowboy's second favorite drink.
Cowboys usually asked for whiskey when they bellied up to the bar, but tequila came in a close second. It became popular after the 1840's, especially in the South West area.
Last summer, the Berthoud Conservation Gardens had a special plant blooming, the Parry's Agave. Each flowering plant has a giant stalk up to 20 feet tall, with 20 to 30 side branches. Each side branch produces hundreds of flowers.
Often called century plants, agaves live many years before flowering, after which they sadly die. This succulent (not really a cacti) has been a source of human food and beverage for at least 9,000 years.
When an agave’s central bud is removed, the cavity fills with fluid. This nutritious juice is called aguamiel (honey water). When aguamiel is allowed to ferment it becomes an alcoholic beverage called pulque. The Aztecs fermented pulque from 1000 B.C. to 200 A.D..

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