Please help me welcome Gwen Mayo, half of the writing team of Gwen Mayo and Sarah Glenn who penned Murder on the Mullet Express, which I reviewed last Sunday. I thought the little details about the trains and the steam engines rang very true in the book, and here’s why: As a certified locomotive engineer, and […]
Slim Randles is here as today’s Wednesday’s Guest with a story about Dewey and his failed love life. The guys are all down at the Mule Barn Truck Stop for the daily ration of coffee and gossip. Grab a donut and join them. You don’t have to gossip, you can just listen. Enjoy…. We knew. We looked
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Help me welcome Slim Randles as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. He is here to share another story about the guys at the Mule Barn Truck Stop. Today, Delbert is working at the chamber office. Please help yourself to a piece of this yummy chocolate pie to go with your beverage of choice. I actually like mine with
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Slim Randles and friends are here to entertain us today as Wednesday’s Guests. Kite flying was one of my favorites past times as a kid. I can remember how hard we worked to get the kites airborne, running and running and running until we thought our lungs would burst and our legs gave out. But
Last Wednesday, I was at The Celt Irish Pub in McKinney Texas for lunch with my daughter, Dany. It was my first visit, but not hers, as she lives in McKinney. We had a wonderful time and I really enjoyed the Shepard’s pie. Being only a few days before St. Patty’s day, talk was about
Slim Randles is here as today’s Wednesday’s Guest, sharing the latest from the Mule Barn Truck Stop. We should all run away when Windy Wilson shows up. Grab a cup of coffee and join the gang as they listen to Windy’s latest great idea. When Windy walked into the Mule Barn during that cold snap
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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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It’s Not All Gravy Musings on Life and Writing Many moons ago I wrote a weekly column for The Plano Star-Courier, a daily Dallas suburban newspaper. That was my first professional writing gig and the title of my column was, It’s Not All Gravy. That seems to fit what life, and writing, is all about,
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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Here we are at the end of another week. Hope yours has been a good one. My plan on Monday – looking ahead to a busy week – was to pre-schedule just a fun post for today. Well, as so many plans go, that one went awry. There will be some fun a bit later
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