The Crime Report, a resource of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, shared some troubling news of a recent Supreme Court decision. In Turner vs United States, the court reaffirmed by a 6-2 vote a standard set in the 1964 Brady case regarding exculpatory evidence. Exculpatory evidence is evidence favorable to the defendant that Read More
Writing
Sex Trafficking Is Slavery, And It Kills
Sex trafficking kills people. I was heading to bed last night and skimming Twitter one last time when I saw a headline that broke my heart. “Woman who helped those caught up in sex-trafficking dies.”
Making Connections at a Writer’s Conference
One of my goals for this year was to attend a writer’s conference. I went to the 2017 OWFI Conference last week, and I’m glad I did. I made connections.
Goal-Checking March (and February)
We’re already a quarter of the way through 2017. How did that happen? Seems like the days are passing ever more quickly. How did I do in March? Not so great in a couple of areas. And I didn’t write a goal-checking post for February’s work. Shame on me. Writing 3 blog posts each in Read More
I Wrote Something and People Liked It
It’s the first week of March and we’ve already seen temperatures in the 80s here in Oklahoma. Spring is coming early, it seems. We didn’t get much of the winter precipitation that we need, though, so we’ve already been under a burn ban twice in the last month. That doesn’t bode well for the summer. Read More