Starting off today, I want to share this cute meme a friend sent me. If you’re anything like me, you have more books than your shelves, or your e-reader, can hold. I wonder if that’s why my Kindle is dying a slow death? It’s getting choked with content. 🙂 I try to resist getting more […]
Now a couple of things I need to comment about. Things that have rankled for quite some time. First off, a note to reporters on NPR, especially those contributing to the morning news program Up First. It only lasts about ten minutes, and I listen almost every day, appreciating the quick update on things that
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Being a naturalized Texan, meaning I’ve lived her long enough to be considered almost a native, I’m pleased to be able to showcase this new book that is part history and part celebration of the Lone Star State. Enter the giveaway to win a copy and some cool swag. TO THE REPUBLIC The Republic Series,
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Today I’m sharing some fun and interesting trivia. Right after I put this cute cat meme up. Now, on to more serious, or not so serious stuff. I saw this at the Trivia Genius Website : “The alphabet hasn’t always been an A-to-Z affair. In fact, the very last letter added to the alphabet we
Before I started writing novels and screenplays, I was a journalist, working for a few regional and national publications. At the regional level, I wrote two newspaper columns, one humorous and one general. At that second gig, I could write anything I wanted, oh bless that editor’s heart who let me do that! Often those
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THE TAKEAWAY MEN By Meryl Ain Publisher: SparkPressPub Date: August 4th, 2020Pages: 265 pagesCategories: Historical / Jewish Literature / Sibling Fiction / Holocaust With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after
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Help me welcome Slim Randles as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. The pandemic sure is taking it’s toll on folks, a fact that Janice and Annette can testify to. Sometimes it makes us say the oddest things, and it’s hard to recognize a joke when we can’t see a smile. Before turning the blog over to Slim,
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Happy Spring to everyone. It’s the time we celebrate the emergence of new life out of the barrenness of winter, and I always delight in the wildflowers that pop up in my yard and neighboring yards. I’m not sure what those lovely flowers are called, but they sprout up abundantly in early spring here in
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First up, Happy Spring everyone. Here in NE Texas spring is popping up all over. These pansies are in a large pot in my front yard, and they will soon give way to other flowers that are happier in the heat of summer that will come our way in a couple of months. In the
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Before I turn the blog over to Slim Randles, who’s here as today’s Wednesday’s Guest, I want to give a shout out to one of my sisters who’s celebrating a birthday today. She’s two years older than me, so she’s officially older than dirt. Parse that one out a bit. LOL I love that picture
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