It is only fitting that, on this day in particular, I continue sharing excerpts from the book I’m writing about my mother. This is her birthday. She died three years ago at age 95, and I still miss her. I am not sure when I will never miss her, or even if that is possible. […]
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Please help me welcome Gwen Mayo, half of the writing team of Gwen Mayo and Sarah Glenn who penned Murder on the Mullet Express, which I reviewed last Sunday. I thought the little details about the trains and the steam engines rang very true in the book, and here’s why: As a certified locomotive engineer, and
Murder on the Mullet Express Gwen Mayo and Sarah Glenn ISBN -13: 978-0-9964209-7-6 (Print), 978-0-9964209-8-3 (Kindle) Publisher: Mystery and Horror, LLC Paperback January 2017 BOOK BLURB: It’s 1926. The West Coast Development Company is staging its biggest land deal in Homosassa, Florida, selling pieces of a planned city to speculators who dream of a tropical
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So, this morning when I came into my office to work on a blog, the ending for a short story I’d been working on popped into my head. I opened the story, thinking to just add some notes, but the narrative, and dialogue, was flowing, so I went with the flow. Almost two hours later,
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Slim Randles is here as today’s Wednesday’s Guest with a story about Dewey and his failed love life. The guys are all down at the Mule Barn Truck Stop for the daily ration of coffee and gossip. Grab a donut and join them. You don’t have to gossip, you can just listen. Enjoy…. We knew. We looked
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Spring mornings in East Texas are just made for taking walks, planting flowers, and then snapping pictures of said flowers. All too soon it will be blistering hot, so I am taking full advantage of the lovely weather. Here’s a close up of the flowers that shows the colors a bit better. I guess if I want really
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A myriad of problems have kept me mostly offline for the past week – pain in my head and a sick computer. The computer is quickly recovering. Me, not so quickly. So, Slim Randles will continue to entertain you until things get better on the home-front. Today he veers off from humor with a reflective
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Slim Randles is back again with a surprise visit just for today. The reason will become abundantly clear when you read the post. Since it is warming up here in East Texas, I think we can all have a glass of refreshing iced tea. When the young woman walked into the Mule Barn truck stop
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Help me welcome Slim Randles as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. He is here to share another story about the guys at the Mule Barn Truck Stop. Today, Delbert is working at the chamber office. Please help yourself to a piece of this yummy chocolate pie to go with your beverage of choice. I actually like mine with
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Slim Randles and friends are here to entertain us today as Wednesday’s Guests. Kite flying was one of my favorites past times as a kid. I can remember how hard we worked to get the kites airborne, running and running and running until we thought our lungs would burst and our legs gave out. But