The Big Turkey Day is on the horizon, like a Macy's Parade balloon, and I have been away from Blogland due to the fact that I am having guests, and my house is a freaking sty. We accumulate paper here like no other human beings I have ever seen. I am constantly shredding more papers than Oliver North in his heyday, as well as recycling, and still I am amazed at the accretion of old bills, announcement of bellydance classes, get-togethers, and positive extravaganzas, half of which I didn't attend, old school papers, computer diagrams, and mystery notes of phone numbers whose owners we don't remember, grocery lists for meals we ate a year ago. The papers will be gone by Thursday--sorted, the undesirables shredded, hopefully the rest filed, and I will be good for another year of accumulation.
So, that is my news. In the larger news of the world, I am sorry to report to those people who come here for news about Asha Veil that there is, so far, nothing more than the continuing investigation. I am amazed at how long it is taking--but these things do take a lot of time. Yet, on the edge of my thoughts about this is my own impatience, my need to know if there is a killer still out there, my fervent hope that there will be resolution in this case. I will continue to try to keep the case visible here in the blog and post things from the media as they come up.
My name is Joan McMillan and this blog is, as Emily Dickinson says, "my letter to the world." I am currently working on a nonfiction book about the murder of a young woman, Asha Veil, born Joanna Dragunowicz, and her unborn daughter, Anina, on September 9, 2006. My book is meant to honor her life and illuminate the need to create a safer world for women and children.

To read an excerpt from the book, please click on the following link:
ashaveilbook.blogspot.com
An excerpt from The Pleasure Palace, my romantic comedy, can be found here:
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