Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

I grabbed my purse, which was conveniently place by the front door. Gabriel was such a considerate abductor/host. He even left the front door unpadlocked.

Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.

Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.

And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.

She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.

People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.