Scrambled Dregs ~~~~~~~ tidbits on life, food, faith, and writing.

Humor is subjective. Some people don’t find the Stooges amusing. Others are left cold by some of the more popular newspaper comics. Napoleon...

Happy May Day – the legal ring and run holiday. Not that I know anything about ringing and running. I asked some authors to add to a couple ...

My mother must have been crazy. Or maybe not. Maybe there was brilliance in her madness. Either way, I’m sure my brother’s usual behaviors a...

I hope this whole Character, plot, prose thing isn’t going to turn into some sort of literary cat fight. Paper cuts are the worst. Deb Raney...

Isn’t it fun to be different? Really. All my life I’ve encountered people who reel back, shake their heads and say, “You’re different!” Some...

I purchased Peace Like a River a few weeks ago. This novel seems to crop up on the “favorites” list of most of the authors I admire or love ...

Funerals are rarely funny. It’s in bad taste to laugh during a funeral. But then, some rules are meant to be broken by certain types of fami...