It seems the very cold winter we’ve been having has frazzled the nerves of lots of people across the country. I snagged this quote from Becky Lewellen Povich’s blog and just had to share it. In commiserating with a friend here in Texas about our cold weather, I told her I couldn’t wait for summer, …
Happy Hump Day everyone. This morning I was going to post another column from Slim Randles, but then Sam started bugging me. Sam, Samantha Rutgers, from Play it Again, Sam, had a few things on her mind, and she wouldn’t go away and leave me alone. I’m not making this up folk. Well, I guess …
Today we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Some people don’t think any more of the day other than the fact that it is a holiday and a day off work. Other people are irritated that there is yet another holiday to inconvenience them by closing banks, the postal service, and other government offices. Thank goodness, …
A recent story in the Dallas Morning News reported that the reservoirs serving the Dallas-area are 10% lower than a year ago and the continuing drought does not indicate that it’s going to get any better. The area is more than 30 inches shy of normal rainfall over the last six years, yet nobody has …
Please help me welcome Slim Randles as Wednesday’s Guest this week. I laughed when I read this story from the Mule Barn truck stop. Dud’s decision to switch from writing reminded me of the college professor who suggested I take up basket weaving as a creative outlet and forget about being a writer. He was …
If I’d planned better before leaving town last week, I could have scheduled a post to magically appear yesterday for my usual Monday Musings, but I didn’t – plan well or schedule. So I decided to just share a few pictures from the amazing wedding I attended last Saturday. My grandson, Bryan married Marion Kennedy …
Today’s Wednesday’s Guest is Jay Hartman, one of the partners at Untreed Reads, a terrific ebook publisher. The folks over there came up with this idea for something fun to do during the bleary days of January. I am pleased to have several of my titles among the hundreds of books offered by Untreed Reads. …
It is really cold this morning. You might ask, “How cold is it?” To which I answer, “Twelve degrees on my front deck.” It will not get above freezing all day today, so that means I will be hauling buckets of hot water out several times to melt the ice in the horse trough. I …
After checking the national weather and seeing the temperatures on the East Coast: -16 in Boston, I will not complain about the 20 degrees here in East Texas, although my animals were complaining big time, especially the goat and the sheep. Both were shivering like mad when I went out to give them some hay …
Here’s hoping everyone had a fun New Year’s Eve, and I wish you all the very best in 2014; good health, joy, and success in every endeavor. I thought I would start off the New Year with a special Wednesday’s Guest, The Ghost of New Year’s Resolutions. This piece is one I wrote back when …
