People always ask me how I think up the crazy things that end up in my novels. And yes, most of it is from my imagination, but almost always that imagination is inspired from real life events. A few things, however, come straight out of reality. Like the armadillo scene in That Man of Mine.  I mean, do you think I could make that up? It happened to my friend Sybil, who called the cops, and one of them ended up being a guy she’d gone to high school with (the cop, not one of the armadillos). In case you haven’t read the book yet (why haven’t you read the book yet???), Mimi, my heroine, is trying to go to sleep when a  couple of rather loud armadillos start to make whoopie along the side of her house. Panic and Read More…