It was a very busy weekend for me, this third week of our Autumn Trails Festival in Winnsboro. It was Trail Ride weekend, so Friday afternoon I rode in a wagon in the Welcome parade. Here are some of the local rodeo riders leading out the parade. I rode with the Man of the Year, […]
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Please help me welcome Cheryl Hollon as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. Cheryl wrote the cozy mystery Pane and Suffering that I reviewed last Sunday, and she is here to share some of the sacrifices we writers make in the name of research. While she may have struggled a bit to find just the right food and
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Pane and Suffering Cheryl Hollon File Size: 945 KB Print Length: 320 pages Publisher: Kensington (September 29, 2015) Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Language: English ASIN: B00RRT32HK Book Blurb: Savanna Webb returns to her hometown to bury her father, John Webb, and sell his glass blowing shop to his partner, Hugh Trevor. At
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On Monday, I shared a few pictures of the glorious cloud formations that I get to enjoy here in my little corner of East Texas, and I have a couple more today. These are some thunderheads that formed the other day, but unfortunately passed on by without leaving anything behind. Still, they were lovely to
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Slim Randles is back as today’s Wednesday’s Guest with the latest installment of the saga of Dud and the book he has been writing forever. Slim has also shared Dud’s progress now and then at The Blood-Red Pencil blog, so you can hop over there if you’d care to read an earlier update. In the
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First I want to share a few pictures of the Texas sky I took recently. I do love the many cloud formations that I can see early in the morning and at sunset. There is something so awe-inspiring about the splendid colors splashed across the backdrop of blue. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so
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Today’s Wednesday’s Guest is Mary Reed, who, with her husband Eric Mayer, wrote the historical mystery Murder in Megara that I reviewed this past Sunday. Mary is here sharing a bit about chance meetings and old friends, both topics that bring a smile. Since this is all very British – except WordPress wanted all the
Murder In Megara Mary Reed & Eric Mayer Series: John the Lord Chamberlain Mysteries Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press; 1 edition (October 6, 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 1464204063 ISBN-13: 978-1464204067 Book Blurb – John, former Lord Chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, has been exiled from Constantinople to an estate in Greece, not far from
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This will be short today as I have to limit my computer time for a few days, so lets start with something to make you smile. This is a picture of a moon flower from my back flowerbed. The plant came to Texas with me when I moved here from Omaha, NE, and I was
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Please help me welcome Slim Randles back as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. While I do love his humorous offerings, now and then he gives us something that is incredibly thoughtful and, well, pretty. Not that a cowboy ever admits to pretty, at least not out loud to his friends at the Mule Barn Truck Stop. Why
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