My Creatively Random Life

A shocking murder. A web of deceit. A twist even Hitchcock wouldn’t see coming. It starts with a phone call – Sondra Ellis’ beautiful baby sister, Tracy, has disappeared during a jog along Chicago’s snowy lakefront. She’s even more devastated when Tracy’s mangled body is found days later, the victim of a mugging gone wrong. A year later, Sondra continues to struggle with Tracy’s death. Her trauma deepens when she discovers series of odd and unsettling cracks in her sister’s seemingly perfect life: puzzling messages, inexplicable meetings, and secrets and lies at every turn. As Sondra continues to dig into the mystery of what happened to her sister, she has no idea she’s on her own collision course with life and death.  For fans of Patricia Highsmith, Mary Higgins Clark, and Alfred Hitchcock, Killing Me Softly is a page-turning psychological thriller that will keep you up long past your bedtime. I did not have many K books to choose from but this one caught my eye, such an int...

Knotty Definition:  highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious. Sentence:   I am, at this present writing, perplexed and plagued with two knotty problems in politics.               — Abigail Adams Ken Definition:  range of what one can know or understand. Sentence:  Ah, but the Eyes Divine look long and see far; things beyond the human ken are all revealed.                — Cyrus Townsend Brady Knell Definition:  the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something. Sentence:  "If she dies," he had said, and the words rang in my ears like a funeral knell.          — Guy Boothby Knoll Definition:  a small natural hill. Sentence:  At the very base of the hill or knoll alluded to, they halted.                 — Edward Sylvester Ellis Knave Def...

I have used karma  in a previous A to Z challenge but it is a topic that I have a deep connection to.  I have a deep belief that what you put out into the world does come back to you and I try to live my life as much within that philosophy as I possibly can.  I don't want to put anything out into there into the world that's going to come back to bite me in the butt.  It gets a little easier with age. The theory is that good intent and good deeds lay the way for good karma and future happiness whereas negative intent and bad deeds create bad karma and future suffering.  In some religions it is tied to the concept of future lives so what you do in this life effects what happens to you in future lives. Karma is difficult to define because there is so much diversity in the views of the different religions but it does seem to share common themes.   One of the main ones being that like deeds cause like effects, the effects of karma are not necessarily immedia...

So, I am a day late with this post.  *sad face*  I feel really bad "K" was eluding me yesterday until after board game and wine night.  And trust me you didn't want me writing a blog post after that.  (although, who knows alcohol consumption may improve my rambling) KerPlunk was one of my favorite games as a child. (I like noisy stuff)  It consists of a hollow plastic tube, colored straws and marbles.  Basically the straws fit through the middle of the tube in a layered web and you pile the marbles on top of that.  Players take turns pulling the straws out and hoping that the marbles don't drop.  The player that dropped the least marbles at the end of the game wins. Super fun!    I have fallen in love with playing games again.  What are your favorites?