Selected Works

Fiction

The Mystery of the Missing Majorette: Art Dodger Case File #1

A missing teenager. A troubled cold-case sleuth. A twenty-year-old mystery never resolved.

Art Dodger, Savannah-based artist, isn't too impressed at first by the story of Danielle Standridge's disappearance twenty years before. He accepts that she's gone. That someone else caused her absence by no means strikes him as certain. Fifteen-year-old girls do all sorts of odd and unexplained things, then and now. Still, in Dodger's experience, which is considerable, when a girl as good-looking as Danielle manages to stay missing for decades, it usually doesn't bode well.

The Day I Died

A work of fantasy, redemption, friendship, and romance that travels in time between 2008 and colonial Pennsylvania just before the American Revolution.

Nonfiction

The Japanese Tea Ceremony and the Shoguns

Originally drunk as an aid to the meditation demanded by Zen Buddhism, tea became the basis for the Japanese Tea Ceremony, or cha-no-yu. Its intellectual and spiritual underpinnings quickly evolved into a formal ceremony used by Japanese political leaders to further their aims, with schools of devotees adhering to different styles. This title provides a tight overview of this evolution and its significance for Japanese culture and society.

Georgia's Great Undertaking: The Beginnings of the Western & Atlantic Railroad

A concise study of how the politically and culturally divided state of Georgia came to initiate and build one of the most successful of the internal-improvement projects of nineteenth-century America.

Another Look at Chippendale and All the Rest

A study of cross-cultural influences on English furniture of the 18th century.

Networking for the Career-Minded Student

A guide for students on how to use systematic networking to improve their occupational outlook.

Linda Hewitt

Random Thoughts About Whatever Comes to Mind

Loss Of An Original Mind, An Affectionate Heart

March 23, 2017

Tags: Amy Krouse Rosenthal, You May Want To Marry My Husband, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary life, the meaning of life

Any death represents the loss of uniqueness - the one pair of hands that could shape clay in just that way, the one brain that analyzed situations in just that manner, the one person who combined just that knowledge-set, circle of acquaintances, capabilities, and experiences.

With the death last week of Amy Krouse Rosenthal, we lost something else: a true original. Known for her quirky Read More