Here is another offering from my friend, Tracy Farr. This was first published in WinnsboroToday.com over a year ago, but is funny enough to get a new audience. Enjoy…. A while back, Hillary Clinton suggested that every baby born in America be given a $5,000 savings bond to be used when they turn 18. That’s …
It’s been a while since I posted an excerpt from the book I’m working on, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck, which is a humorous memoir. I first introduced the book back in June… and I can’t believe I still haven’t finished it. Yikes!! The following is from the chapter about being sick and …
More fun from Tracy Farr….. Learning your lessons the bus driver way It takes a special kind of person to drive a school bus. Not just any Joe or Jane can do it, and most of us wouldn’t even try. But those who feel the calling – those who dare to get behind the big …
This is an excerpt from my new book , a humorous memoir titled A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. One of these days I might even finish it and find a publisher for it. Halloween is not like it used to be. With concerns over Politically Correct costumes, candy that has been tampered with, …
Today being Halloween Eve, if Halloween is important enough to have an Eve, I thought I would have some fun with spiders… er, I mean about spiders. I’m not nearly as terrified of them as I used to be, but still, there are limits. I thought about doing this blog the other day when I …
Here is some more fun from my friend Tracy Farr. Enjoy……. I have finally come to a decision – I’ve decided to suck it up, bite the bullet and lose a bit of weight before some fisherman spots me and tries to harpoon me for Sunday brunch. I may only lose an ounce or two …
Back in June I started posting excerpts from my new book , which is a humorous memoir titled A Dead Tomato Plant and A Paycheck. This latest installment is from the chapter tentatively titled, The Silly Things We Do. A couple of weeks ago, I “told” on a friend, so this time I decided to …
The other day I mentioned to my husband that I hardly know any of the celebrities mentioned on entertainment shows or written about in the entertainment section of the newspaper. “I wonder if that is part of the official rite of passage for the Social Security set,” I said. He laughed and said he noticed …
It’s never too late to honor someone of the stature of William Safire, the columnist who died last Sunday. If I hadn’t been absolutely buried in work, I would have done this sooner, but later is better than never, as the old cliche goes. I have always enjoyed Safire’s columns for their ability to make …
Another contributor to WinnsboroToday.com, the online community magazine where I am Managing Editor, is Slim Randles. He is a talented writer and author of several books including Sun Dog Days. He writes a weekly column, Home Country, that is syndicated in over a hundred print and online news sources, and his work is a joy …
