Thoughts

I write a lot. Essays. Articles. Blog posts. All of them sharing what I’m thinking about. Maybe you think about these things, too.

Jeannette de Beauvoir 5/31/22 Jeannette de Beauvoir 5/31/22

A Real Murder by the Book (Or Blog Post, As The Case May Be)

The rest of her story is dreary and pedestrian (as most real murders tend to be; it’s never Colonel Mustard, in the library, with a candlestick): the couple was experiencing financial difficulties and she thought a big life-insurance payout would make everything just peachy-keen.

Jeannette de Beauvoir 3/12/19 Jeannette de Beauvoir 3/12/19

Someone Has to Pay

I was in full work mode. I’d prepared all the relevant documents. I had the wording down. I’d pored over appropriate websites. It was time to speak with the director of the agency, and in preparation for the interview, I read everything that I could about their work. And that was when the words stopped me.