Wampach’s is a little diner in downtown Shakopee that’s been here since the 50s. It’s very similar to my parents’ little diner 10 miles down the road near downtown Savage. I have very distinct memories…
Date Archives 2016
The Long, Dark Journey to a New Web Host & Other Whinings
First of all, how you like the new digs? I figured with all that was going on the least I could do was freshen this joint up. What was going on? Well, I’m glad you…
So Much Smug
First things first, Wendy Walker’s All is Not Forgotten starts with a pretty graphic description of rape. Teenage Jenny Kramer is brutally raped for an hour outside a party in her affluent Connecticut town. When…
Sticks the Landing
Not much will keep Katie and Eric Knox from helping their fifteen-year-old achieve her Olympic gymnastics dream — not mountains of credit card debt, falling apart cars, or their younger son, maybe not even murder….
Mystery at a Northwestern Minnesota Lake
Lucy Evans is the last of the Evans sisters and as she’s dying she writes her life story, recalling the summer of 1935 when her younger sister Emily mysteriously disappeared at the family’s lake home…
The Large Straight is the Bane of My Existence
Back in the mid-90s during the in between time post-college and pre-real job, I lived with my parents in Shakopee so did my Grammu and Sisters #3 & #4, along with #3’s boyfriend. Sister #2…