Decorating… check. Baking… sorta check. Still cookies to make. Gifts and cards… also sorta check. Still have to wrap a few gifts. House ready for company… check as soon as I get all the wrapping paper and bits of ribbon off the guest bed. Now to just close down my office for the rest of […]
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Over the weekend there were three tragedies. First at Brown University on Friday. Then the deadly shooting in Australia. Then the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife that was discovered Sunday afternoon. These kinds of horrific things always hit me hard. There is an ache in my heart and a pain in my gut,
First story is something I wrote about the weeks before Christmas a long time ago as part of my weekly humor column for the Plano Star Courier. While the people and places have changed, not much else has when it comes to getting ready for the Big Day. I’m always in what I call The
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As years pass, we tend to lose sight of things from the past that shouldn’t be forgotten. Today, Dec 7th, is the 83rd anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. The attack was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at
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PINTSIZED PIONEERS AT PLAY:Homemade Frontier Fun and DangerBy Preston Lewis & Harriet Kocher Lewis Young Adult / Nonfiction / HistoryPublisher: Bariso PressPages: 218Publication Date: 4 November 2025 *** SYNOPSIS *** Discover the Wild Side of Frontier Childhood! Pintsized Pioneers at Play: Homemade Frontier Fun and Danger explores the forgotten world of how kids lived, laughed,
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The reason I write police procedurals goes back many moons to my introduction to the genre. At the time, I didn’t have a burning desire to write them, just enjoyed the hell out of reading the stories featuring cops who always got the bad guys. It started with Ed McBain. A section of his bio