Betty Jean Craige

Mar 2017 25

Cosmo, The Talkative Grey Parrot

2017 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Pets

by Betty Jean Craige

When I started writing my Witherston Murder Mystery series—Downstream, Fairfield’s Auction, and Dam Witherston—I could use two hands to type. Now I am proceeding more slowly, at least during daylight hours, because Cosmo, my very talkative African Grey Parrot, wants to cuddle on my lap. If I don’t keep caressing her with my left hand she reminds me: “Cosmo wanna cuddle.” So I have learned to type with my right hand.

Downstream By Betty Jean Craige: Review/Guest Post/Giveaway

2015 Articles, Going Green, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sandra Murphy

by Sandra Murphy
& Betty Jean Craige

At the age of twenty I could not have imagined that in retirement I would write about a five-legged frog, a dog with un-descended testicles whose mother birthed him at the age of sixteen, two lovely post-menopausal ladies who got pregnant in their fifties, and twenty-four healthy centenarian gentlemen with swelling breasts. But neither could I have imagined back then that we'd be polluting our rivers, lakes, and streams with estrogen, anti-depressants, and tranquilizers. Who takes estrogen?