Today is mail day, and we have a special kind of event. Perhaps even a “special” event. This time we visit some old television shows, “The Rockford Files” meets “The Twilight Zone”.

I was watching an old “Rockford Files” DVD from netflix on Sunday, since season 4 only recently came out. In the middle of another wonderful story by Juanita Bartlett, the writer whose pacing and rhythm is matched only by her ability to get into her characters’ skin, I had a thought. It’s been months since I tried to track her down via the internet. Perhaps there is something new.

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I have a thin day today. It’s time to answer mail, but I’ve been hit with a lot of one-liners lately. I think it’s because Spring is coming to Saint Paul and we all have better things to do than comment on blogs at length. Well, I’m trying to scrounge up work so I have better things to do, too, so here’s this week’s mailbag.

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For those of us in the USofA, it’s the day our taxes are due. I’ll keep it brief.

This is Tuesday, the day that I post some of your letters. Author’s Den recently implemented comments with each post, which made me think of abandoning this little ritual. Sadly, you have to be a member of Author’s Den to post a comment. That’s not enough to replace the weekly post of your letters, so here we are.

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On a grey and dreary day, nearly everyone is running a bit low. You can see it in people’s faces – they’d rather snuggle under a blanket with the cats up close and warm. Some of us, however, are even more sensitive to the weather than that. We are the human barometers.

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It’s a gloamy day in Saint Paul, with the threat of more liquid life hanging over us as if Spring doesn’t exactly want to come yet. This is my mail day, when I answer my letters. I love doing this, because your cheery letters make blogging worthwhile for me!

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