BLACK AND WHITE:Tales of the Texas Highway Patrol byBEN H. ENGLISH Law Enforcement Biography / Memoir / Ethics & MoralsPublisher: Creative Texts Publishers ** 250 pagesPublication Date: June 7, 2022 You know, I never saw an officer, an EMT, a fireman, or an ER crew ask anyone what their politics were and then refuse to …
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Since I’m still in recovery mode from my shoulder surgery and some complications that popped up – literally as in swollen feet and legs – I’m pulling a post from July 2015. My friend Slim Randles wrote about what the Fourth of July holiday means in this thoughtful essay about parades, flags, and Independence Day. …
Police in my little city are going down the street ticketing cars that are parked on the grass. Not the grass by the street, mind you, where it could be considered a traffic hazard, but the grass in the people’s own yards. Apparently there is some kind of ordinance here that says a car has …
I wrote the following post Tuesday early afternoon before hearing about the shooting at the school in Uvalde. My posts are often written the day before they go live, often to give myself a chance to edit or change entirely. I’m not going to change this one. We do need a moment to focus on …
THE BABY WITH THREE FAMILIES, TWO COUNTRIES,AND ONE PROMISEAn International Adoption Story by JULIE GIANELLONI CONNORIllustrated by Saman Chinthaka Weerasinghe Genre: Children’s Fiction / Picture Book / Adoption Publisher: Bayou City PressPub Date : December 9, 2020 ** 40 pages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’m happy to have Ms. Connor as my guest today as she shares about her …
Every day I fill a small black pan with water for the birds. It sits in my front flowerbed, and I see cardinals and finches that often come and take a drink, but have never been able to get a picture. Either I don’t have my phone with me, or by the time I open …
THE LAST TRIAL OFT. BOONE PICKENS by Chrysta Castañeda & Loren Steffy Genre: Biography/Autobiography, Courtroom Drama Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Group Date of Paperback Publication: September 15, 2021 Number of Pages: 300 Pages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Finalist, 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award T. Boone Pickens, legendary Texas oilman and infamous corporate raider from the 1980s, climbed the steps of …
Just when I think maybe… the pain in my head comes back with a vengeance. Sigh… So, it’s a good think I have material from Slim Randles to share, and it’s a perfect day to read some nonsense from good ol’ Windy, the man who mangles the English language like no other. But first this …
As always, I’m happy to have Slim Randles as my Wednesday’s Guest. He never fails to entertain us with a yarn or two about the guys at the Mule Barn Truck Stop. He shares these columns free with us here, as well as readers of several hundred newspapers around our fair nation. So, if you …
For as long as Slim Randles has shared Dud’s struggles with writing his novel, I’ve chuckled and commiserated. Chuckled because Dud goes to some extremes in his thinking, and commiserated because I feel his pain. Plotting a story isn’t easy. Grab a cup of coffee and help me welcome Slim and Dud as today’s Wednesday’s …