Please help me welcome today’s Wednesday’s Guest, Marie Flanigan, a freelance writer in northern Virginia. She writes video game and book reviews as well as the occasional blog post for The Motley Fool. Her first novel, One Big Beautiful Thing, was released in May. We will have latte’s from the coffee shop in town, so …
I wasn’t going to blog today since I am so busy with the youth drama camp at the local art center, but we had such a terrific day today, I thought I would share a bit and show you one of the posters they created for the show. One of our volunteers who does graphic …
One Big Beautiful ThingMarie Flanigan File Size: 499 KBPrint Length: 359 pagesPage Numbers Source ISBN: 1484972600Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B00CM9K0PC The central character in this story is an artist, Kate Abernethy, who is trying to adjust to a new kind of life following the sudden death of her boyfriend. She moves in …
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This is not going to be my usual Friday blog. For a lot of reasons. Number one is the Youth Drama Camp that has consumed my time all week, but it has been so much fun. Here is a picture of some of the kids practicing one of the songs for the musical written by …
My Wednesday’s Guest is Slim Randles, sharing some more of his cowboy humor. And if you enjoy these little essays, you would love his book, Home Country, that is chock full of these kinds of stories. While Slim is guesting here, I am over at Neil Plakcy’s blog, The Inside Look, where I talk a …
This is the first week of the Summer Drama Camp at the Winnsboro Center for the arts, and since I am in charge of theatre events there, that means I will be there every day for the next two weeks. That won’t leave much time for blogging, so I will schedule a few posts in …
Thanks again to Carl Brookins for sharing his reviews. Blogger was not cooperating earlier today when I tried to post this. Sigh….. Rest for the Wicked by Ellen Hart ISBN: 978-1250001863 A Minotaur hardcover and Kindle 2012 release So readers know, the author and I are friends, often travel together as the Minnesota Crime Wave …
Since I am still in celebration mode and my company is still here, this will be a short post today. I do want to announce the winner of my Birthday Give-Away. I was going to have one of my cats draw a name out of the hat, but they slept in this morning. My husband …
To me and to the USA I thought I would celebrate with some pictures of past fireworks displays that my kids have put on out here at “Grandma’s Ranch.” There have been some good ones. I will come to announce the winner of my free short stories sometime late in the day. Like my …
Today’s Wednesday’s Guest is my friend, Slim Randles, with some thoughts on the Fourth of July and what the parades and picnics all mean. I think he is on to something here. The annual Fourth of July picnic was a celebration of time and freedom. We’d all watched the parade, earlier, because that’s what you …