This will be short today as I have to limit my computer time for a few days, so lets start with something to make you smile. This is a picture of a moon flower from my back flowerbed. The plant came to Texas with me when I moved here from Omaha, NE, and I was …
Please help me welcome Slim Randles back as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. While I do love his humorous offerings, now and then he gives us something that is incredibly thoughtful and, well, pretty. Not that a cowboy ever admits to pretty, at least not out loud to his friends at the Mule Barn Truck Stop. Why …
Something different for my Monday blog today, as I have special news I want to share. This past week my daughter-in-law, Rebecca, became a U.S. citizen. She stood with almost two hundred others from 38 countries and took the Naturalization Oath of Alligiance to: **Support the Constitution; **Renounce and abjure absolutely and entirely all allegiance …
I found these mushrooms growing by an old stump in my back pasture and thought they were very pretty. With the sun shining on them, it looked as if they had been gilded. I wish I could have captured that shimmer of gold, but pictures I take with my phone never look exactly like the …
My Wednesday’s Guest today is Dave Terruso who has a new book out, Cube Sleuth. I love the cover. What do you think? His previous book is Lost Touch, which I read and reviewed HERE. It features a woman psychic who loses her power for a short time, just when she needs it most. It …
September 11, 2001– a day that changed so many lives. Every anniversary of that horrible day, I think of this song “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?” by Alan Jackson. I go to YouTube and listen with tears in my eyes and goosebumps on my arms. Jackson wrote the song in October of …
First I want to wish all my friends in the States a Happy Labor Day. This is a day to acknowledge all that people do in jobs ranging from the most menial to the most celebrated. I have always thought most highly of the folks that do the work that some people think they are …
What on earth is going on in Hungary? Just reading snippets of news it sounds like a revisit of Nazi Germany. This from Reuters today: Hungarian police halted a train packed with migrants bound for the Austrian border and tried to force them to disembark in a town with a detention camp on Thursday, …
Slim Randles is my Wednesday’s Guest today with a poignant story about a dog and an old man. They are so good for each other. If you are looking for some humor today, you could hop over to The Blood-Red Pencil where I have a post about the fun of writing with kids underfoot. They …
Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Harper; 1 edition (July 14, 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 0062409859 ISBN-13: 978-0062409850 BOOK BLURB: Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—”Scout”—returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were …
