Today I am over at The Blood-Red Pencil with a post about thankfulness and some special writers who have mentored me in my efforts to put words together and create stories. Maybe you can check that out after you finish reading about these vampires and the trouble they get into. Today’s Wednesday’s Guest spot is …
Over the next few weeks I’m going to be helping some other authors promote their books and the special deals they are offering between now and the end of the year. This is my way of paying it forward in appreciation for all the author-to-author support I receive on social media. It’s not surprising that …
Instead of my usual Friday blog, I wanted to share this wonderful short story written by Georgia Lange Moore, a writer and artist and a dear friend who graciously gave me permission to use it. When Georgia writes a new story, she often calls me to read it to me, and when she got to …
Oh my gosh. Please don’t tell Slim how much I love squash. I also love his humor and am always so pleased to have him as Wednesday’s Guest. Let’s all grab a cup of coffee and join him in some fun. Enjoy…. Squash. One of the English language’s most painful words, along with maim and …
First off, I want to invite you to a virtual Halloween Party where you can win Amazon gift cards and get some killer deals on seasonal books featured at The Kindle Book Review. The books are listed according to genres for easy selection, and you can find my historical mystery, Boxes For Beds, in the …
This is not a review, but something special I wanted to share. If you are a reader you know that, through their writing, authors explore issues that are important to them and often feel the pull to do more than write about them. That is true for Gillian Jones, who contacted bloggers to see if …
I had company for several days this week. My friend, Jan and her brother, Jim, came for a visit and we had a grand time reminiscing about our childhoods. Jan and I have been friends since we were 11 years old, and the friendship has weathered the years and the separations well. She lives in …
Slim Randles is here today as Wednesday’s Guest with a little story about his friend, Dewey and a new enterprise. You never know what the guys at the Mule Barn Truck Stop are apt to do. Enjoy…. When Dewey Decker bought that acre on the edge of town from Gil Masterson, it astonished some people, …
It was a very busy weekend for me, this third week of our Autumn Trails Festival in Winnsboro. It was Trail Ride weekend, so Friday afternoon I rode in a wagon in the Welcome parade. Here are some of the local rodeo riders leading out the parade. I rode with the Man of the Year, …
When I was a kid, I remember seeing hundreds of butterflies, even in Michigan, which is not even on the migration path of these lovely, delicate creatures. In the last two decades the population of Monarch butterflies has gone down from 1 billion to approximately 30 million today, primarily because of the destruction of their …
