Today I have a different Wednesday’s Guest, Brenan from the company ElephantStock.com is here to offer some tips on sprucing up your work space. If you click on the link, check out the amazing painting of a hummingbird. But come right back. 🙂 While emailing with other writers and reading their blogs and Facebook posts, I’ve …
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Happy Monday Morning When I walk with my dog in the mornings, I pass by several places where there are pretty flowers, some domestic and some wild. These wild irises are blooming just under some domestic ones. These are in a field where a house once stood, so somebody had planted the big irises. Both …
Happy Friday everyone. I hope it is a good day for you. It’s warming up again here in Texas after a bit of a cold snap on Tuesday and Wednesday. For those couple of days, temperatures were in the mid-thirties at night, and I thought I might have to cover my plants again. Luckily, it …
Maybe it’s the time of year. Or the challenges we are all facing with uncertainties that are out of our control. Or just the fact that sometime Slim Randles gets very thoughtful in what he writes. He is more than a humorist after all, and through the years that I’ve gotten to know him by …
Since we’re are all still dealing with lock-down, social distancing, health scares, and so much more because of the COVID 19 situation, I thought a little fun on the blog would lighten the load for all of us. A version of this post first appeared on the blog in 2006. Enjoy… My very first publishing …
To all my Christian readers, I want to wish you all a …and many blessing in this special time. Goodness knows we need all the blessings we can get. For my readers who are not Christian, I wish you blessings too, for whatever religious or spiritual practice you follow. The Spring Solstice is a time …
Many of you know that I like to make quilts. While I don’t consider myself adept enough to call myself a quilter – that’s a title I give to people like my friend Becky Pickett who has made hundreds of quilts over the years – I do enjoy the process. I especially enjoy giving the …
Slim Randles is my guest today with an essay about Spring that encapsulates how many of us view this season of the year – new growth, new hope, new wonder. In the spirit of all that is wonderful about Spring, here is a picture of some wild flowers that pop up everywhere here in my …
This pandemic is getting more and more scary by the day, especially here in the U.S as we now have three times the rate of infections as any other country. This is sad news considering that had there been better planning and a quicker response on the National level, we might be looking at much …
Street Music Timothy Hallinan Print Length: 384 pages Publisher: Soho Crime (April 28, 2020) Publication Date: April 28, 2020 Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services Language: English ASIN: B07V11772C Text-to-Speech: Enabled BOOK BLURB: Eight years ago, Poke Rafferty, an American travel writer, and his Thai wife, Rose, adopted a Bangkok street child named Miaow, …
