A popular sentiment on mugs and tee-shirts says, “Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a Daddy.” Those words have always impressed me, perhaps because they express something I’ve always wanted to convey. My father is, and continuously has been, a ‘Daddy’ to me, even though I didn’t always view […]
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I just read a great article by Elmore Leonard with some great writing tips. Many of them are ones we have heard before, but he has a knack for restating them with a bit of a punch. He starts his article with, “These are rules I’ve picked up along the way to help me remain
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A common knee jerk reaction to some accident or natural disaster is for people to call on the government to enact new laws to protect us. Some people think that “It’s time for us to hold our lawmakers accountable for keeping us safe,” as one person wrote in a recent letter to the editor in
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Just when I thought I’d heard it all when it comes to the absurdity of people, I run across a story like one I just read in The Dallas Morning News. It seems that a woman in North Texas who was selected to be on Bridezillas – a show that should be on the bottom
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I remember when I first read Erma Bombeck’s wonderful book I thought she made up all the craziness she wrote about. But I also thought that maybe somewhere in the midst of her jokes would be some tidbit of wisdom that would help me get a handle on the insanity at my house. Alas, all
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Years ago when I first started writing my children were all young and the formidable task of ‘writing around them’ was daunting. I remember one time in particular when one of my two-year-old twins, Danielle, known lovingly as Chicky, had just settled down beside me to help or hinder my writing. She contributed a few
I am getting ready to go to our grandson’s graduation party. This is an exciting time for all the high school and college graduates as they end one phase of their lives and move into another, and we are thrilled for Justin, who had a stellar high school career and is going to SMU in
Been away from my blog for a couple of days — as you may have noticed due to the lack of posts since Monday – and came over to find I have two new followers. And these aren’t family or friends or people I’ve bribed to follow me. The first one is Joe R Lansdale,
My husband and I raised five children, and I think we got through the challenges of a large family by using humor. It can pretty well diffuse any situation, although the humor might not always be apparent right away. Some things have to age somewhat before they take on comic proportions. For instance, spilling a
That’s what many people call Suzan Lakhan Baptiste who has worked to save the leatherback sea turtle on Trinidad’s Matura Beach. Every year, female leatherbacks return to the beach where they lay their eggs. They dig deep holes to deposit the eggs, a long difficult process that leaves them easy prey for poachers who kill