I am doing the Youth Drama Camp again this week, so I am gone from my office most of the time. Thank you Tracy Farr for allowing me to stea… er, borrow your work when I am desperate for a blog piece. Enjoy…. 5 Tips on Surviving Marriage Sadie and Reese are friends of mine […]
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I just read this news update and couldn’t let it pass without a comment: “Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have called off their second engagement after he told her he may have fathered a baby with another girl. The other girl was not identified, but a pregnant ex-girlfriend of Johnston has publicly denied he is
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Those of you who have been following my blog know that my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck, is based on the weekly column I used to write for the Plano Star Courier, an upscale Dallas Suburban newspaper. My husband and I raised five children, and one of the things that helped
Thanks to Carl Brookins for providing another review of an interesting mystery. Enjoy…. Final Approach By Rachel BradyPoisoned Pen Press,HC, 250 pg, October, 2009ISBN: 9781590586556 A fine debut novel with an unusual plot line. Emily Locke is recovering from the loss of her husband and infant daughter. It is clear from the get-go there is
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In a recent letter to the editor in The Dallas Morning News the writer commented that the members of the Tea Party cannot be racist because many of the members are the same people who marched with Martin Luther King. Wait a minute. That would make them as old as I am– I marched –
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Since I am busy this week with the Youth Drama Camp at the art center in town, I thought I would let my friend Tracy entertain you today. Enjoy: Just in case you haven’t been keeping up with the news lately, the U.S. – Mexico border is not the only place immigration officials are trying
Okay, so Bristol and Livi are finally getting married. Bristol Palin and Livi Johnston, that is. This is so they can raise their son, Tripp, who was born out of wedlock, with a mother and a father in the same house. Oh, goody. Who cares if the father has posed for Playgirl? Does it matter
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Thanks again to Carl Brookins for sharing his book reviews with us. Death in West Wheeling Michael DymmochFive Star Mysteries, Hardcover,182 pages, Hardcover, $25.95IBN1594144583 Who knew author Michael Dymmoch, who has written such solid noir mysteries as “White Tiger,” “The Fall” and “M.I.A.”, could put together such a funny, even hilarious novel as this one, set
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I’m starting something new on the blog. Since Fridays for me are all about tying up all the odds and ends of my week and making sure I got everything done, I came up with the idea of doing an odds and ends piece every Friday. Basically it will be just little bits of absurdities,
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Actually, not such a surprise. Most of us already realize that common sense does not seem all that common in Washington. That came to mind today when I read the following news item: “Government watchdogs are telling a Senate panel that the Obama administration’s multibillion effort to help at-risk homeowners avoid foreclosure is not working