Here is some fun from my friend, Tracy Farr…. Oh baby, let me tell ya these last few weeks I’ve cooked more things out on the grill than I think I’ve ever done in my whole entire life. I’ve got smoke in my hair, steak in my belly, and I think I like it. In …
Yesterday the family decided we had had enough with the tears and sadness, so some of us drove from Houston to Galveston to play on the beach for a while. The island has been cleaned up a lot since Ike wreaked his havoc there, so much so we almost forgot the storm happened. After chasing …
I am getting ready to go to Houston to bury my father. He has had Alzheimer’s for some time, so in some ways he has already been gone, but this physical leaving is different. And it is harder than I thought it would be. I thought I had already been saying goodbye. This picture was …
The following is another excerpt from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. I am almost finished with the second draft and have been sending out a couple of preliminary queries. No family would be complete without their pets. We have had a number of them through the years, and they all …
I’ll admit upfront that Dennis Lehane is one of my favorite authors, so any review by me is not going to be totally objective. But you have to admit that an author who can capture a moment is such sparse words as this, is a master at the craft. She whispered his name. She whispered, …
For some reason the words to Lee Greenwood’s song keep running through my head this morning, but not because I am so proud to be an American today. I’m not feeling very free, as the chorus goes: And I’m proud to be and American,where at least I know I’m free.And I wont forget the men …
I wasn’t going to do it, honest. Blog about the Health Care Reform bill, that is, but these opinions just keep rattling around in my head interfering with an otherwise normal day of writing. This reform scares me as much as the one proposed by the Clinton’s, primarily because like so many other people, I …
Sometimes you just have to do it. Forget the alarm clock. Sleep in. Waste time, and otherwise be somewhat irresponsible. So that’s what I did this morning. All last week I forced myself to try to get up at something close to my normal time so I could stay on my usual schedule, but this …
Let’s get it right…. One of the issues to arise in the debate in Texas over school curriculum and textbooks is the Separation of Church and State as mandated in first Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Those who are against the inclusion in textbooks of any mention of God, religion, or the …
I’m going on record to say I hate the time changes. They mess with me big time. (pun fully intended.) Sunday morning I tried to wake up at my usual time, except it wasn’t my usual time. The clock said 6:30, but it was really 5:30, and who wanted to be up at that ungodly …
