What is it with dolls?  In Ghostly Attachments, I used a doll to aid PEEPs in dealing with the horrors of the nursery.  The doll that gave me inspiration in the book is my husband’s doll, Hansel, bought for him when he was a baby in France.  Hansel is really loveable, but maybe it’s because he obviously likes me best and we’ve become quite attached.  The Red Pen, like Jesse Holden in CID, hates clown dolls.

Have you ever looked backwards to see what you were doing on this day a few months or years ago?  Facebook helps us out in relation to our time on FB, but what about the time before social media’s computers kept track of our every internet move?  People had diaries, and I’m not just speaking about those little pink books with very easy to pick locks on them.  I’m talking about journals.  These books give us insights into the daily workings of households, and many also give us tidbits of gossip from which we learn so much about the social network of the era in which they are written.

It occurs to me that it’s extremely hard to hold on to a positive thought in this negative society.  Regardless of our political, ethical, or ambitious leanings, we are faced with a barrage of negative actions, verbal and tangible, coming at us from all sides. 
It’s destroying positivity.  But how has this happened?  Let’s say you see, hear, or read something that goes against your core beliefs.  Instead of holding your anger in check, you unleashed it.  Negativity thrives on hatred.  Negative people attract other negative people, and before you know it, you not only don’t recognize these people with whom you associate, but you no longer recognize yourself.

This anger is brewing to a point of being explosive.  It doesn’t matter who started it.  It must stop, and we can stop it.