monday morning musings

Book Tour: Deus TEX Machina

DEUS TEX MACHINA: The Second Calamity ofQED Morningwoodby Rob Witherspoon Science Fiction / Humor / SatirePages: 163Publication Date: June 13, 2022 QED “Kid” Morningwood is back with big plans to create a death tourism industry. Working with his old Metaphysics professor from Texas Alchemical and Metaphysical University, he delves the purgatorial realms gathering data for […]

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Dress For Success or Not

One of the items that pops up in my online mailbox every day is an article from Nice News. Nice news is so much better than some of the other news we see, and the articles they share are always interesting. As is this one about dressing. No, not for the turkey, but how and

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Here I Go Again

Just like Friday’s blog post, the following is another one that wasn’t at all what I’d had in mind. There had been a plan, but that old cliché reared it’s ugly head. “The best laid plans…” and all that. Let me explain. The original idea for today was to share a little bit from a

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Book Review: Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate

Before posting the book review, I want to share a couple of inspirational items that a friend sent me. First: “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” Martin Luther King Jr. Oh, how true that is. The unknown can be so scary, but we never get past where

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Book Tour: A Beggar’s Bargain by Jan Sikes

A BEGGAR’S BARGAIN The Bargainer Series, Book OnebyJan Sikes Historical Fiction / Literary FictionPublisher: Fresh Ink GroupDate of Publication: March 12, 2024Number of Pages: 324 pages  Scroll down for Giveaway! A shocking proposal that changes everything Desperate to honor his father’s dying wish, Layken Martin vows to do whatever it takes to save the family

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Memories are Treasures

Yesterday, Easter Sunday, while talking with one of my sons, the conversation moved from talking about guitars and guitar players – one very talented one I recently met on Twitter Matt Steady – to my father – a talented player himself – to my father’s dementia from Alzheimer’s. Whew! That’s one of the longest, disconnected

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Cursing and Praying

Mark Twain once said that “under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer,” and people have been swearing as long as they’ve been praying. That’s an interesting tidbit of trivia about Mark Twain, and it is a fact that folks have used colorful language for a lot more than describing pretty flowers or what’s on

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