POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS

by Sheila Connolly Recently I read that New York City will be changing the font on its street signs from Highway Gothic (which it has u...

by Sheila Connolly I've probably touched on the topic of childhood imagination and free play before, but not long ago the point was d...

by Sheila Connolly This past week the news in my area has been full of stories about the tragic death of Amy Lord, a young woman living...

by Sheila Connolly Since the Zimmerman verdict was handed down, issues of race and profiling have bubbled to our cultural surface a...

by Sheila Connolly As I read my newspaper at dawn this morning (I'm trying to avoid the heat—five a.m. can be very pleasant, I'v...

by Sheila Connolly I belong to quite a few writing-related loops (or whatever they're called now), not that I read all of them regula...

by Sheila Connolly By strange coincidence, I was gifted with a highly unlikely souvenir this week, and I'm still trying to fit it in...

by Sheila Connolly Sharon's post earlier this week put my recent adventures abroad in a new perspective for me. View from Capi...

by Sheila Connolly When you read this, I will be in Italy, if all goes as planned.  And for once, I didn't have to do the planning—t...

by Sheila Connolly I spent much of the past few weeks on the road, both at the Malice Domestic conference (where I saw two other Daughte...

by Sheila Connolly Recently I've been reading Bob Spitz's excellent biography, Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child. ...

by Sheila Connolly Recently I was reading a review in the New Yorker about a crime-themed television show and came upon the citation of...

by Sheila Connolly April carries the weight of everyone's least favorite deadline:  Tax Day.  April 15th strikes fear into the ...

by Sheila Connolly Recently the wildly successful mystery writer Lee Child wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times , titled "A ...