In two more days, I leave Sheridan, Wyoming, heading south to Rockport, Texas.

I've become a snowbird now. Part of the year in Sheridan, the rest in Rockport where I lived 10 years before I became a Sheridanite.

Texas is home - land of my birth (in Tyler, Aug. 18, 1947). But so is Wyoming by virtue of having lived full-time in Sheridan for more than 20 years before the call of family - and the pain of shoveling winter snow - drove me south again.

I travel with a small menagerie:… Continue

A few days ago, I wrote about cats and magic - and my theory that cats go Between, that dimensionless space that exists between our world and ... whatever else is out there. Here's how I know:

A few years (well, more than a few) ago, when my sister moved up to Sheridan, Wyoming (from Rockport, Texas), I took some time off and went with her to help with her dog and cats. Second day of travel, we stopped in Denver. Next morning, as we're loading the car, we noticed one of the cats was… Continue

Those two just go together, don't they? Cats are such mysterious creatures ... It's no wonder humans have linked them with witches and wizards through the centuries. You can visualize a cat as a wizard's familiar in a way that, for example, a basset hound (of which I have two - in addition to a couple of cats) just wouldn't fit.

Can you see a basset hound as a familiar?

"Bubba, I need you to help me channel a spell."

"Yeah, sure, keep your robes on. I'll be with you as soon as… Continue

P.L. Blair, author of fantasy/detective novels, has written her fourth book in the Portal series, Sister Hoods. Readers will be delighted to discover intrigue and mystery in a world of nymphs, satyrs and a herd of unicorns in - of all places - magical woodlands on the Texas coast. Characters, Kat and Tevis, form a band of heroes in an attempt to save the woodlands from devastation -- and their inhabitants from becoming homeless.



All of Blair's books are based on the perception that… Continue