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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As I promised on Friday, here is an excerpt from Evelyn Evolving, the book I am writing about my mother’s life. I know little about what happened when my mother was just an infant that caused her father to leave and her mother to abandon Evelyn and her sister, so this is what I made
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Unless you are one of the few people who love the time changes that we get to experience twice a year, please take a moment to join me in a huge groan. I particularly dislike the spring-forward time change, as if we are to jump with joy because it feels like 6 a.m. when we
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The Woman Behind the Waterfall Leonora Meriel Literary Fiction, Magic Realism Granite Cloud Publishing: October 1, 2016 ISBN: 1911079239 234 pages – hardback 262 pages – paperback BOOK BLURB – Heartbreak and redemption in the beauty of a Ukrainian village For seven-year old Angela, happiness is exploring the lush countryside around her home in western
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This meme made me smile. The message is a clever response to the adage, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” I’ll take a little sugar and water, please. I’m posting the blog late today. I started writing it this morning, but had to stop because of pain in my head. When the pain eased up, I decided
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Edward Unspooled Craig Lancaster File Size: 3117 KB Print Length: 286 pages Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited Publisher: Missouri Breaks Press (July 23, 2016) Publication Date: July 23, 2016 Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC Language: English ASIN: B01I2D7HU2 BOOK BLURB: Change keeps stalking Edward Stanton. He and his new wife, Sheila, have retreated to his
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Good Monday morning, everyone. I do hope you had a great weekend and did something fun. I spent Saturday at the Winnsboro Center for the Arts; first volunteering to keep the doors open so visitors could see the one-woman exhibition of the work of Barb Richert, then at a concert by John Gorka. In addition to
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Good Monday morning. I hope everyone had a great weekend, filled with lots of fun activities. I had three performances of the play in which I am playing four different roles. “String of Pearls” by Michele Lowe is written for four women to play 27 roles. We have seven women in our cast, playing the
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When I was active in the Civil Rights Movement in the early 60s, I was so sure that by the time the year 2000 rolled around, there would be no need for activist groups to still be fighting for equality. Sigh… While things are certainly better on many levels than they were back then, we
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Let’s start the day, and the week, off with this cute meme. We all could use a smile. It was a busy weekend for me as we had our performances of “Deck the Stage” at the Winnsboro Center For the Arts Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We all had great fun and learned the truth of
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