Tag: The Swiss Family Carlson

• Malice and Gardening

  

  This weekend was Malice Domestic and the Agatha Awards. Malice Domestic is a conference celebrating traditional mysteries, cozies, and softer thrillers and noir novels. Malice has the reputation for being *only* for cozy mysteries, or viewing mysteries only through a cozy lens. But, really, it’s for every genre under the mystery umbrella. If you write…

  Mindy Carlson

  May 2, 2025

  Food, Homemaking, Writing

  #amwriting, book-review, book-reviews, books, fiction, food, gardening, Her Dying Day, mulch, mystery, peppers, planting, rain garden, spring, The Swiss Family Carlson, tomatoes

• Creativity Returns

  

  Last time we spoke, I was in a bit of a spiral. Part of that was because it was February. Part of it was the specific ways the world is fracturing under our feet. The world hasn’t gotten better. It’s still fracturing and things are still awful. (Who shares classified military information in an unsecured…

  Mindy Carlson

  March 27, 2025

  Homemaking, The Swiss Family Carlson, Writing

  #amwriting, books, brainstorming, fiction, garden, gardening, gardens, Her Dying Day, mulch, parenting, spring, springflowers, Swiss Family Carlson, The Swiss Family Carlson, writing

• Banned Books Week

  

  Banned Books Week is upon us. This year, it runs from September 22 – 28. I’ve loved this week-long celebration as if it were Thanksgiving since I was in high school. On the Monday of this most joyous of weeks, my favorite teacher would wear a sweatshirt that declared “Celebrate Freedom! Read a Banned Book!”…

  Mindy Carlson

  September 25, 2024

  Kids, Writing

  #amreading, #amwriting, banned, banned book week, banned books, banned-books-week, books, Her Dying Day, libraries, reading, The Swiss Family Carlson