It’s been a while sine my friend Tracy Farr appeared on the blog. He has been busy trying to keep up with his goats.. ‘The Great Goat Escape’ – a present-day adventure There was a time when I had no goats. There was a time when I was a boring and pathetic excuse for a …
First of all, since I was out of town when the Blog Carnival ended on Feb 28th, I want to announce the winner of a copy of my book, Play It Again, Sam. The Carnival was held by Classic Romance Revival and each of the participating authors chose a winner from the visitors to her …
A couple of weeks ago I posted an excerpt about soccer from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. A number of readers responded to the story of beginner soccer players and how much fun it is to watch, and the readers asked if I would be posting more soccer stories. There …
Alex Massie, a British journalist, recently wrote an insightful column about the fact that our current government is less than competent. Far less than competent. His article was printed in the Dallas Morning News, but first appeared at ForeignPolicy.com. Massie started his essay by mentioning the fact that pressure was put on FDR to restrict …
I am anything but a fashion-plate. As one of my daughters will attest, I don’t keep up on the latest fashions and am very comfortable wearing the same blazers I wore in college and jeans that are so old I can’t even remember when I bought them. However, she is kind in her criticism and …
I saw the daffodils poking their lovely little yellow blooms up along the dry, brown roadways in the last few days, so I thought spring was definitley coming. Now, I’m not so sure. Snow is falling, and it is predicted that we might have accumulations of several inches. A prediction that worries me since I …
Since I didn’t have a clue what to write about today, I thought you all might enjoy a little fun from my friend, Tracy Farr… This is part of his blog today titled: What the World Needs Now is More Hoopla In the interest of being politically political for politics’ sake, I denounce my association …
I realized today that it has been a while since I shared an excerpt from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. The following is from a chapter on soccer, a sport that dominated our lives for many years. Enjoy…. Long before anyone heard of Soccer Moms and Sarah Palin, I was …
Carole Kilgore over at Under the Tiki Hut gave me this lovely Picasso Award the other day. In her blog, she said it reminded her of spring, a season that many of us who have had lots of snow are really looking forward to. I appreciate her thoughtfulness in passing this on to me. Now …
