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Slightly quirky, always creative, Pearl R. Meaker has been an artist, singer and craftsperson her whole life. Although she's always had stories in her head, they didn't come out to play with others until the advent of home computers with their ease of making corrections and moving bits around.

After several years of writing fanfiction in the world of Tolkien's Middle-Earth, she took a couple of writing courses and dove into writing original works of fiction, and The Can Be Mysteries were born.

When not playing with story ideas you can find Pearl playing with yarn either knitting or crocheting, doing other arts and crafts, bird watching and photographing nature, playing bluegrass fiddle (her husband plays banjo) or relaxing with her hubby on t ...more

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I Can’t Do It All …and neither can anyone else.

I Can’t Do It All …and neither can anyone else.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 ~ PEARL R. MEAKER ~ EDIT

I took a photo of a bird, really I did. But when I looked at the photo on my camera there was no bird in sight. The cormorant dove under the water while my camera was focusing and I snapped on nothing but water. I could not get the shot. And just like I didn’t get the shot, I don’t “get” everything else I try Read more of this blog post »

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